James Hillman
James Hillman
James Hillmanwas an American psychologist. He studied at, and then guided studies for, the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. He founded a movement toward archetypal psychology and retired into private practice, writing and traveling to lecture, until his death at his home in Connecticut...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
CountryUnited States of America
jobs men office
Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.
talking people our-society
The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
air bags guarantees
We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.
food psychology fundamentals
Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.
depression dysfunction cold
Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
doctors people want
Many people nowadays who discover that they have a major symptom, whether psychological or physical, begin to study it. They get drawn very deeply into the area of their trouble. They want to know more than their doctor. That's a curious thing, and not at all the way it used to be.
expression soul symptoms
Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there’s usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.
angel environment moments
The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.
inspirational goal inferiority
We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.
america long expatriates
I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate
thinking past calling
In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's not a vocation.
karma spiritual discipline
Too often in the west we fail to realize that even in eastern disciplines the spiritual life is not meant as an escape from the worldly life. There is karma to be fulfilled on earth, within the dharma of necessity.
invisible zeitgeist vessel
Vessels expose the invisible Zeitgeist, the visible formed by the invisible.
needs world
We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.