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
father mirrors childhood
I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.
dream wander who-you-are
Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized image that drives our wandering.
dream morning two
Each morning, we return from the dream soul trying to adjust to the day world, that moment when the two souls exchange places in the driver’s seat.
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.
blessed blessing broken
You know, people come to therapy really for a blessing. Not so much to fix what's broken, but to get what's broken blessed.
blessing
....anything you attend to carefully can bring blessing....
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.
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.
time loss soul
Without time for loss you don't have time for soul.
invisible zeitgeist vessel
Vessels expose the invisible Zeitgeist, the visible formed by the invisible.
kids problem trouble
Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.
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
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.
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