RESUMEN: El presente trabajo tiene por finalidad delimitar y formalizar histórica y epistemológicamente el método de estudios literarios para el análisis de textos poéticos que he llamado Deus Ex Machina. Para elloP se ha empleado como base la teoría de los arquetipos y la visión general del universo simbólico de Carl Gustav Jung, intentando complementar la misma con aportes de la semiótica, el formalismo ruso, la antropología cultural, la filosofía posestructuralista y la crítica literaria entre otras miradas y disciplinas.ABSTRACT: The current papers have the aim of delimitate and formalize, both historic as epistemologically, a literary studies method I called Deus Ex Machina specially created for poetry analysis. To reach it I have employed as a departure point the archetypes theory, and all the symbolic universe general vision proposed by Carl Gustav Jung; trying to complement his thinking with the efforts of thinkers from some other disciplines, like semiotics, Russian formalism, poststructuralist philosophy, cultural anthropology, literary criticism, and so on...