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
mean loss soul
Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul
together stories pieces
Each of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How do I find the basic plot of my story?
raises-questions oddities curiosity
We must look back over our lives and look at some of the accidents and curiosities and oddities and troubles and sicknesses and begin to see more in those things than we saw before. It raises questions, so that when peculiar little accidents happen, you ask whether there is something else at work in your life.
despair demand expect-nothing
To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.
children home white
The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?
journey self environmental
An individual's harmony with his or her 'own deep self' requires not merely a journey to the interior but a harmonizing with the environmental world.
men soul psychology
Beauty is something everybody longs for, needs, and tries to obtain in some way - whether through nature, or a man or a woman, or music, or whatever. The soul yearns for it. Psychology seems to have forgotten that.
soul psychology stories
Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.
soul purpose connections
Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.
bliss follow-your-bliss knows
You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.
suffering want bleeding
One strand of psychotherapy is certainly to help relieve suffering, which is a genuine medical concern. If someone is bleeding, you want to stop the bleeding. Another medical aspect is the treatment of chronic complaints that are disabling in some way. And many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic. So there is a reasonable, sensible, medical side to psychotherapy.
letting-go people important
It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.
parent soul body
As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.
life-is trouble
Many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic.