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James Hillman

    April 12, 1926 – October 27, 2011

    James Hillman was an American psychologist and the founder of archetypal psychology. His work delved deeply into the realms of myth, philosophy, and art, seeking to understand the human psyche through symbolic imagery. Hillman's unique approach emphasized the significance of image and metaphor in psychological life, offering a radically different perspective on the human experience. His writings invite readers to explore the deeper, archetypal layers of consciousness, revealing the richness of the unconscious world.

    James Hillman
    Archetypal Psychology
    The Force of Character. And the Lasting Life.
    Inter Views
    Re-Visioning Psychology
    Ermenegildo Zegna
    Suicide and the Soul
    • 2024
    • 2023

      Salt and the Alchemical Soul

      • 156 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      Edited and introduced by STANTON MARLAN, Salt and the Alchemical Soul is a collection of three papers from Freudian, Jungian, and Archetypal Psychology, newly edited and introduced, providing excellent examples of different methods and styles of working with images. ERNEST JONES, in his essay "The Symbolic Significance of Salt in Folklore and Superstition," attempts to apply psychoanalysis as a "new science" to an understanding of superstition. C.¿G. JUNG's investigation into alchemy in "Sal" leads him to see salt as the principle of Eros at the base of the self. JAMES HILLMAN, using the image of salt, looks into the alchemical way of psychologizing, in "The Suffering of Salt." (Second, revised edition)

      Salt and the Alchemical Soul
    • 2023

      Po klasicích Sigmundu Freudovi a C. G. Jungovi přichází James Hillman s originálním pohledem na sny a práci s nimi. Vychází z klasických teorií, ale netradičně je obohacuje o nový přístup čerpající z poetiky mytologie. Spojuje sny zejména s temnou stránkou duše, s jejími představami a stíny, s obrazy smrti. Hillmanovým řešením v přístupu ke snu je především odvaha k imaginativní, poetické, metaforické svobodě, odvaha k tvořivému ponoru do hlubiny… Na teoretickou část knihy, která je prokládána množstvím příkladů z mýtů i Hillmanovy vlastní praxe, navazují úvahy nad některými konkrétními snovými motivy.

      Sny a podsvětí
    • 2022

      A deeper, richer portrait of Oedipus, the most famous figure in all of Greek tragedy and the (unconscious?!) hero of the basic myth of psychoanalysis by two giants in the fields of mythology and psychology: the eminent mythographer Karl Kerényi and the founder of archetypal psychology, James Hillman. Kerényi widens the Oedipus myth's cultural context by introducing unusual dramatic versions that played in Rome, Paris, Vienna, and London. His authoritative and detailed essays release wonderful insights for even the most casual reader. Hillman takes on Father Freud and his Oedipus complex (i.e., every son wants to kill his father and marry his mother). He inverts the emphasis and asks, Why do fathers kill their sons? Hillman brilliantly proposes that the madness of Oedipus may lie less in his overt crimes than in his-and therapy's-single-minded focus upon "figuring out" one's true identity through a remembering of the past. This relentless search for Oedipus to "know himself" is still with us, still blinds us, still tries to turn people in therapy into Oedipus. Yet Hillman also shows us that, in addition to the curse, murder, incest, and disease, the myth of Oedipus contains beauty, blessing, love, and loyalty.

      Oedipus Variations: Studies in Literature and Psychoanalysis
    • 2021
    • 2021
    • 2021

      Alchemical Psychology

      • 338 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Alchemical Psychology combines all of Hillman's papers on the alchemical imagination from 1980 to the present. Hillman called the early attempt to present his way of grasping this material, in the 1960s at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, "Alchemical Opus/AnalyticalWork." His intention then as now is to give psychoanalysis another method for imagining its ideas and procedures by showing how alchemy bears directly on psychological life, more clinically immediate and less spiritually progressivist.

      Alchemical Psychology
    • 2021

      Edited by the distinguished philosopher Edward S. Casey, Philosophical Intimations, Volume 8 of the Uniform Edition of the Writings of James Hillman, collects Hillman’s papers and lectures on language and learning; cosmology, metaphysics, and mathematics; philosophy of psychology; the aesthetic dimension; and future time; as well as three conversations with Casey on the need for metaphysics.

      Philosophical Intimations
    • 2016
    • 2016

      Troufalá a rozhněvaná řada vášnivých rozhovorů a dopisů je sžíravým komentářem a kritikou nejen dnešní psychoterapie, ale také takřka všech významných aspektů současného života – sexuality, politiky, médií, životního prostředí i městského života. James Hillman, kontroverzní a neortodoxní jungiánský psycholog, muž, kterého Robert Bly nazval „nejživější a nejoriginálnější americký psycholog od dob Williama Jamese“ – společně s Michaelem Venturou – provokativním fejetonistou L. A. Weekly a romanopiscem – otřásají mnoha obecně přijímanými přesvědčeními o našich životech, duši i společnosti. Dva brilantní a troufalí intelektuální divoši porušují pravidla a jezdí na červenou, aby udeřili do samotného jádra našich domněnek a pokáceli všechna naše zlatá telata.

      Máme za sebou sto let psychoterapie, a svět je čím dál horší