James Hillman is one of the leading figures in archetypal psychology. This anthology presents carefully selected passages from many of his seminal essays, and work on archetypal psychology.[...]
Edited by Glen Slater PART I: OPENINGS Senex and Puer: An Aspect of the Historical and Psychological Present (1967) Peaks and Vales: The Soul/Spirit Distinction as Basis for the Differences Between Psychotherapy and Spiritual Discipline (1976) Notes on Opportunism (1972) PART II: MOVEMENTS AND PATHO[...]
This groundbreaking classic explores the necessity of connections between our life and soul and developing the main lines of the soul-making process.[...]
Extending Jung's theories of the collective unconscious, Hillman reinterprets Freud's scientific theories in terms of the poetics of mythology, relating our dreaming life to the Underworld--the unknown aspect of our souls[...]
Robert Bly, James Hillman, and Michael Meade challenge the assumptions of our poetry-deprived society in this powerful collection of more than 400 deeply moving poems from renowned artists including Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Theodore Roethke, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marianne Moore,[...]
Jarring contemporary notions of psychology and politics, and pushing beyond them to offer the beginnings of new paradigms, this book examines the legacy of psychotherapy. It exposes psychology as an ideology that collaborates with traditional notions of individualism - notions that are no longer ten[...]
In the sixth century b.c.-twenty-five hundred years before Einstein-Heraclitus of Ephesus declared that energy is the essence of matter, that everything becomes energy in flux, in relativity. His great book, "On Nature," the world's first coherent philosophical treatise and touchstone for Plato, Ari[...]
A psychologist and author of The Force of Character examines the origin, needs, and rewards of war, filling the void of why no one understands why war is constant in history by asking such questions as why humans need enemies. Reprint.[...]
In his powerful bestseller The Soul's Code, James Hillman brilliantly illuminated the central importance of character to our spiritual and emotional lives. Now, in this magnificent new book, Hillman completes his exploration of character with a profound and revolutionary reflection on li[...]
In this book of dialogues, James Hillman and Sonu Shamdasani reassess psychology, history and creativity through the lens of Carl Jung's Red Book. Hillman, the founder of Archetypal Psychology, was one of the most prominent psychologists in America and is widely acknowledged as the most original fig[...]
Plato and the Greeks called it "daimon," the Romans "genius," the Christians "guardian angel"; today we use terms such as "heart," "spirit," and "soul." For James Hillman it is the central and guiding force of his utterly unique and compelling "acorn theory," which proposes that each life is formed [...]
This text explores themes such as fate and fatalism, character and desire, family influence and freedom, and, most of all, calling - the mystery at the core of every life. It is a guide to discovering and fulfilling our potential in life, relationships and work by following the "code".[...]
Corbin's work on the role of imagination in the religions and its fundamental place in human life has had a lasting and wide-ranging influence on contemporary poetry and the humanities. Among his most influential readers were the poets Charles Olson and Robert Duncan and the archetypal psychologist [...]
This brilliant book brings Pan back to life by following C. G. Jung's famous saying: "The Gods have become our diseases." Chapters on nightmare panic, on masturbation, rape and nympholepsy, on instinct and synchronicity, and on Pan's female loves-echo, Syrinx, Selene, and the Muses-show the goat-God[...]
One of the classic texts of Archetypal Theory and Criticism, it attempts to bring about a fundamental logic for psychology and psychotherapy independent from both philosophy or the natural sciences. The question which the author attacks in this volume is the most difficult in psychology because it a[...]
This book collects all of James Hillman's papers on the alchemical imagination from 1980 to the present: "Therapeutic Value of alchemical Language"; "Silver and the White Earth I & II"; "Alchemical Blue and the Unio Mentalis"; "Salt: A Chapter in Alchemical Psychology"; "rudiments: Fire. Ovens, Vess[...]