Who is James Hillman
James Hillman (April 12, 1926 – October 27, 2011) was 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.Early life and education
Hillman was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1926. He was the third child of four born to Madeleine and Julian Hillman. James was born in Breakers Hotel, one of the hotels his father owned. His maternal grandfather was Joseph Krauskopf, a rabbi in the Reform Judaism movement, who emigrated to the United States from Prussia. After high school, he studied at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service for two years. ...
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- All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?
- Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.
- We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?
- The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?
- We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.
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Therapyforguys1: "freud and jung are psychological masters, not that we may follow them in becoming freudian and jungian, but that we may follow them in becoming psychological"- james hillmanGrantmaxwell: “successful therapy is thus a collaboration between fictions, a revisioning of the story into a more intelligent, more imaginative plot.” james hillman
Aurora__company: "if life can be imagined as some sort of destiny, then one is engaged in a different way. how do i shape this destiny? what can we do with this destiny? what is wanted from me because of this destiny?" - james hillman
Markov_particle: meanwhile, i'm considering merging guattari, berardi, and federico campagna's magic system into a deep dive of shestov, james hillman, and whitehead only to then do nothing but write poetry in purely dionysian fashion until my final breath if it doesn't work out in the end
Markov_particle: further (possibly) deranged thoughts: james hillman talks alot about myth and fantasy in myths of the family and i just wonder if epigenetics systems (of course tethered in relation to other systems) can imagine, fantasize, and consider the virtual as well
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