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
eye reflection talking
Not just any talk is conversation; not any talk raises consciousness. Good conversation has an edge: it opens your eyes to something, quickens your ears. And good conversation reverberates: it keeps on talking in your mind later in the day; the next day, you find yourself still conversing with what was said. That reverberation afterward is the very raising of consciousness; your mind's been moved. You are at another level with your reflections.
views journalism persons
It's very hard in our adversarial society to find a third view. Take journalism, where everything is always presented as one person against another: "Now we're going to hear the opposing view." There is never a third view.
who-i-am path sooner-or-later
Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.
struggle soul darkness
Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the soul requires to deepen into life.
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?
hands white understanding
Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as in the old Western movies - the ruffian outlaw band shooting up main street and the little white church with the little white schoolteacher wringing her hands. To cool violence you need rhythm, humor, tempering; you need dance and rhetoric. Not therapeutic understanding.
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.
bliss follow-your-bliss knows
You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.
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.
soul psychology stories
Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.
kids opposites ideas
The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.
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.
life-is trouble
Many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic.
despair demand expect-nothing
To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.