By: James Hillman Publisher: Harper Paperbacks Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Harper Paperbacks Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 304 Publication Date: January 28, 1978 Release Date: December 28, 1977
Product Description: This groundbreaking classic explores the necessity of connections between our life and soul and developing the main lines of the soul-making process.
Psyche and Imagination Excellent read - Hillman's dialectic compells us to consider that integration does not necessarily need to mean sythensis - in fact, we will continue to be alienated if we pursue this heroic task blindly.
only if you live in a castle in the air not evidence based. Just his own imaginings. Appears to have severe problems with religion, but doesnt reveal that straightforwardly. This is neither psychology or philosophy. Clearly wants to be 'the discoverer' of something, yet the indigenous thought of many groups throughout the world are represetned in his work without credit. The author is out of touch. A psychology of our times is both psychological and biological, and not a self indulgent follower of Jung in the style of the mid-1900s. Nothing timeless here that does not derive from others far more organized and erudite.
Brilliant This is Hillman at his best, presenting psychology in a new light. The book gave me many new perspectives; combining Hillman's creativity and intuition with a modecum of "enfant terrable". Although not always easy to read, it is well worth the effort. I have given this book to a rather square psychoanalyst in the hope that it would turn his head around a bit.
The man is in his work. I can only thank the four previous reviewers for saying so well what I feel; not only about the book, but the author. These ideas are thrilling, challenging, radical, and hard. All of which makes them more than simply worthwhile. Mr. Hillman moves the ideas forward with an imagination filled with integrity.
Seeing Through the Serious Business of Psychotherapy I think Jung would have appreciated the irony: in a way this book both completes and thoroughly undermines the Jungian project. At least that's how it worked for me.
Hillman is a genuinely wise man (I do hope he never reads this, or if he does, that he forgives me for saying so! :-). Yes, he is certainly a poet, a mythologist, a psychotherapist, a thinker, an iconoclast, a scholar etc, etc... But above all, he is a wise man -- a shaman, a guide. In this book he turns his gift for "seeing through" to the subject of psychotherapy itself. I can only describe the result as an astonishing, erudite, profoundly beautiful and ultimately liberating dance, in which Hillman, on our behalf, engages (and disengages!) himself with the psychological stuff of psychotherapy. This is healing of the highest order, and I never expected to encounter it in such an accessible form.
Having read this book, I can no longer think of Psyche in terms other than those of polytheistic "seeing through". And I can no longer read any books on psychotherapy, except through Hillman's playful, re-visioning eyes -- no, not even Jung, nor Hillman himself. The circle is complete. The thesis and anti-thesis have combined into synthesis, and in the four-step magical dialectics, got transmuted into a new totality. Where do we go from here? I have no idea, but it will be somewhere else.
Anything Goes Trivia
Megaton Man
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