"The Suffering of Salt, Toward a Substantial Psychology," is the title of chapter three of James Hillman's book, Alchemical Psychology, and the starting point for the first class of year two of the Jung Platform's online course. Hosts Patricia Berry and Robert Bosnak focus the discussion on the notions of salt, commonality and substance. I am beginning to see an increased …
Category: Alchemy
Alchemy Class Notes – Session Ten
The final class of the 2014 Winter semester of the Jung Platform's course, hosted by Patricia Berry and Robert Bosnak, takes us into the third chapter of James Hillman's book Alchemical Psychology, titled, The Suffering of Salt, and begins with the topic, "Toward a Substantial Psychology." Salt, although understood by Hillman as metaphorical, to the alchemists …
Class Notes – Session 9
Class nine of the Jung Platform's course on James Hillman's book Alchemical Psychology, presented by Robert Bosnak and Patricia Berry, technically ends this first season of classes, which took us through the first chapter, Rudiments. Class Ten, notes to follow soon, begins the next chapter, The Suffering of Salt. Robbie likens the work of alchemy …
Class Notes – Session Eight
Session Eight of the Jung Platform's online class on James Hillman's book, "Alchemical Psychology," moves the work from forge to stove, in which the use of glass vessels for heating the material make alchemy both possible and psychological. "Glass also separates observer from observed. It is the material of distancing, separating events from life by …
Class Notes – Session Seven
In the seventh session of the Jung Platform's class on James Hillman's book, Alchemical Psychology, the discussion moves to the nature of the material, the vessel used for containment and the necessity of the "separatio," of essence from the material. In psychological work this distinction is at the heart of the work, whether in a …
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