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
thinking ideas things-change
I don't think anything changes until ideas change.
moving ideas our-world
Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal individuation cannot alone save the world from the catastrophe inherent in our very idea of the world. They require a cosmological vision that saves the phenomenon 'world' itself, a move in soul that goes beyond measures of expediency to the archetypal source of our world's continuing peril: the fateful neglect, the repression, of the anima mundi.
people huge older-people
Fear is a huge thing for older people.
matter wonder transfiguration
The transfiguration of matter occurs through wonder.
war vietnam faults
You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault.
character animal night
I like to imagine a person's psyche to be like a boardinghouse full of characters. The ones who show up regularly and who habitually follow the house rules may not have met other long-term residents who stay behind closed doors, or who only appear at night. An adequate theory of character must make room for character actors, for the stuntmen and animal handlers, for all the figures who play bit parts and produce unexpected acts. They often make the show fateful, or tragic, or farcically absurd.
war heart winning
My war - and I have yet to win a decisive battle - is with the modes of thought that and conditioned feelings that prevail in psychology and therefore also in the way we think and feel about our being. Of these conditions none are more tyrannical than the convictions that clamp the mind and heart into positivistic science (geneticism and computerism), economics (bottom-line capitalism), and single-minded faith (fundamentalism).
time loss soul
Without time for loss you don't have time for soul.
class environment biology
Yes, there's genetics. Yes, there are chromosomes. Yes, there's biology. Yes, there are environment, sociology, parenting, economics, class, and all of that. But there is something else, as well.
childhood way determined
Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.
i-can
I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche...
letting-go angel firsts
It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.
character world stories
You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters the world called.
stars fall character
Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.