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
half world chance
It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.
children military book
Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There is a strategy, an overall concept, and there are tactics along the way…Tradition would say I was a 'child of Mars.'
office giving holding-on
We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.
mistake father thinking
I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made
cosmos archetype settings
By setting up a universe which tends to hold everything we do, see, and say in the sway of its cosmos, an archetype is best comparable with a God
parent choices soul
The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten
ideas psychology emptiness
I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.
animal reality men
Rather let us imagine the anima mundi as that particular soul-spark, that seminal image, which offers itself through each thing in its visible form. Then anima mundi indicates the animated possibilities presented by each new event as it is, its sensuous presentation as a face bespeaking its interior image - in short, its availability to imagination, its presence as psychic reality. Not only animals and plants ensouled as in the Romantic vision, but soul is given with each thing, God-given things of nature and man-made things of the street.
angel invisible
Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us....
death ideas effort
The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Why inquire if you already know the answer?
ideas goal trying
My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.
men important looks
It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation
world persons
Each person enters the world called.
fun play white
The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face.