Imagining offers freedom from the magic of certitude, by recognizing that beliefs begin in images and are always images too, images that have lost their wings and fallen into truths. The angelic aspect of human being is the unbounded imagination. When consensus within a culture is driven by a desire for certitude, the safety and comfort …
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“I” is an Aggregate
In this next installment of examining James Hillman's book, Anima, and Anatomy of a Personified Notion, we look at the notion of Ego, and especially its relation to Jung's idea of the Conscious, as he understood these terms. Ego, as an idea, concept or definition, has been with us for a very long time and has a …
Let There Be Dark
As more and more of us, in an increasingly sleep-deprived world lose touch with our dreams, I continue to wonder what it is we are losing. Dr. Rubin Naiman sees our difficulties with sleep and dreaming, driven by "unrelenting motion": "We live in a world of unrelenting motion, a world that discourages slowing and stopping, a world that has lost …
Archetypal Psychology – a Brief Account, Part I
As a lasting legacy to James Hillman, Spring publications has been publishing his writings in a 10 volume set called the Uniform Edition. The latest of these offerings now available in both cloth-bound and for Kindle readers, is his Archetypal Psychology, described by Spring as: "Originally written for the Italian Enciclopedia del Novecento, this indispensable book is a …
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