Possession The conceptual framing of one's experience into spatial designations of 'inner and outer,' 'self and other,' 'me and not me,' 'real and imaginary,' shape, categorize, which through the force of habit and time coagulates into an assumed identity referred to as 'me.' Inversely, out of all that remains, the discarded elements of raw experience become what is not …
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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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Born at the Right Time
"By means of personifications my sense of person becomes more vivid for I carry with me at all times the protection of my daimones: the images of dead people who mattered to me, of ancestral figures of my stock, cultural and historical persons of renown and people of fable who provide exemplary images--a wealth of …
The sins of the father…
"...just one more wink in the sleep of the cosmic nightmare"