James Hillman

"Plato called it "daimon," the Romans "genius," the Christians "guardian angel"; today we use such terms as "heart," "spirit," and "soul." While philosophers and psychologists from Plato to Jung have studied and debated the fundamental essence of our individuality, our modern culture refuses to accept that a unique soul guides each of us from birth, shaping the course of our lives. In this extraordinary bestseller, James Hillman presents a brilliant vision of our selves, and an exciting approach to the mystery at the center of every life that asks, "What is it, in my heart, that I must do, be, and have? And why?" Drawing on the biographies of figures such as Ella Fitzgerald and Mohandas K. Gandhi, Hillman argues that character is fate, that there is more to each individual than can be explained by genetics and environment. The result is a reasoned and powerful road map to understanding our true nature and discovering an eye-opening array of choices--from the way we raise our children to our career paths to our social and personal commitments to achieving excellence in our time."--

In Search of Character and Calling

The Soul's Code

In a deepening of the thinking begun in The Myth of Analysis and Re-Visioning Psychology, James Hillman develops the first new view of dreams since Freud and Jung.

DREAM & THE UNDERWOR

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

The Dream and the Underworld

This groundbreaking classic explores the necessity of connections between our life and soul and developing the main lines of the soul-making process.

Re-Visioning Psychology

Il codice dell'anima. Carattere, vocazione, destino

A vitally important introduction to the theories of one of the most original thinkers in psychology today, A Blue Fire gathers selected passages from many of Hillman's seminal essays on archetypal psychology.

A Blue Fire

Myths of the Family

Marie-Louise von Franz

Enth.: The inferior function / by Marie-Louise von Franz. The feeling function / by James Hillman.

Lectures on Jung's Typology

In this work, Hillman's main deconstruction of therapy, he asks "What does the soul want?" and answers "Fictions that heal". By examining the three Great Originators of depth psychology--Freud, Jung, and Adler--this book looks again at what is really meant by "case history", "active imagination", and "inferiority feelings".

Healing Fiction

With 439 excerpts from the writings of C.G. Jung. "This excursion is intended to supplement the main literature on the anima. Since that literature provides a goodly phenomenology of the experience of anima, I shall look here more closely at the rather neglected phenomenology of the notion of anima. Experience and notion affect each other reciprocally. Not only do we derive our notions out of our experiences in accordance with the fantasy of empiricism, but also our notions condition the nature of our experiences." (James Hillman)

An Anatomy of a Personified Notion

Anima

This furious, trenchant, and audacious series of interrelated dialogues and letters takes a searing look at not only the legacy of psychotherapy, but also practically every aspect of contemporary living--from sexuality to politics, media, the environment, and life in the city. James Hillman--controversial renegade Jungian psychologist, the man Robert Bly has called "the most lively and original psychologist we've had in America since William James"--joins with Michael Ventura--cutting-edge columnist for the L.A. Weekly--to shatter many of our current beliefs about our lives, the psyche, and society. Unrestrained, freewheeling, and brilliant, these two intellectual wild men take chances, break rules, and run red lights to strike at the very core of our shibboleths and perceptions.

We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy--And the World's Getting Worse

Two groundbreaking essays, "The Thought of the Heart" and "Anima Mundi: The Return of the Soul to the World," by James Hillman that launched Archetypal Psychology and began the renaissance of a psychology that returns psychic reality to the world. Following Marsilio Ficino, who was the first to place the soul in the center of his vision, Hillman argues for a psychology that reflects the world it works in.

The Thought of the Heart and the Soul of the World

A philosophical re-evaluation of the spiritual and physical benefits and necessities of aging to the development of character draws form myths to offer an empowering reassessment of maturity as the crowning achievement of life. By the author of The Soul's Code. Reprint.

And the Lasting Life

The Force of Character

This book is James Hillman's main analysis of analysis. He asks he basic question," What does the soul want?" With insight and humor he answers: "It wants fiction to heal."

“[An] acute and powerful vision . . . offers a renaissance of humane values.”—Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life Plato called it “daimon,” the Romans “genius,” the Christians “guardian angel”; today we use such terms as “heart,” “spirit,” and “soul.” While philosophers and psychologists from Plato to Jung have studied and debated the fundamental essence of our individuality, our modern culture refuses to accept that a unique soul guides each of us from birth, shaping the course of our lives. In this extraordinary bestseller, James Hillman presents a brilliant vision of our selves, and an exciting approach to the mystery at the center of every life that asks, “What is it, in my heart, that I must do, be, and have? And why?” Drawing on the biographies of figures such as Ella Fitzgerald and Mohandas K. Gandhi, Hillman argues that character is fate, that there is more to each individual than can be explained by genetics and environment. The result is a reasoned and powerful road map to understanding our true nature and discovering an eye-opening array of choices—from the way we raise our children to our career paths to our social and personal commitments to achieving excellence in our time. Praise for The Soul’s Code “Champions a glorious sort of rugged individualism that, with the help of an inner daimon (or guardian angel), can triumph against all odds.”—The Washington Post Book World “[A] brilliant, absorbing work . . . Hillman dares us to believe that we are each meant to be here, that we are needed by the world around us.”—Publishers Weekly

James Hillman's work has influenced innumerable analysts, psychologists, philosophers, artists, culture critics, and more. The dissemination of his writings has inspired challenging and individual psychological productions world-wide. In this volume, Stanton Marlan has brought together a collection of 27 papers by well-known authors whose work expresses the fecundity and influence of Archetypal Psychology at its best. In addition to these seminal essays, there are many rare photographs, as well as an excerpt from the developing official biography of Hillman. This book highlights the importance, both of Hillman's original contributions, and of current developments in this field.

Reflections in Honor of James Hillman

Archetypal Psychologies

Laura Pozzo

Extraordinary, yet practical accounts of active imagination, writing, daily work, and symptoms in their relation with loving. The only biography of Hillman, the book also radically deconstructs the interview form itself.

Conversations with Laura Pozzo on Psychotherapy, Biography, Love, Soul, Dreams, Work, Imagination, and the State of the Culture

Inter Views

The Uniform Edition of the works of James Hillman launches with the long-awaited revised and expanded third edition of "Archetypal Psychology", containing a complete checklist of Hillman's writings and a comprehensive bibliography of writings in the field of Archetypal Psychology.

James Hillman

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