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
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.
expression soul symptoms
Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there’s usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.
angel environment moments
The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.
inspirational goal inferiority
We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.
america long expatriates
I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate
thinking past calling
In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's not a vocation.
karma spiritual discipline
Too often in the west we fail to realize that even in eastern disciplines the spiritual life is not meant as an escape from the worldly life. There is karma to be fulfilled on earth, within the dharma of necessity.
invisible zeitgeist vessel
Vessels expose the invisible Zeitgeist, the visible formed by the invisible.
needs world
We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.
men thinking individuality
We vote for Perot. We think he's a great, marvelous, honest man. We send money to his campaign, even though he is one of the richest capitalists in our culture. Imagine, sending money to Perot! It's unbelievable, yet it's part of that worship of individuality.
class race prejudice
I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.
hatred black patient
In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.
dull way live-by
We dull our lives by the way we conceive them.
men self ideas
Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea.