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James Hillman
Author profile
born
in Atlanta, The United States
April 12, 1926
died
October 27, 2011
gender
male
influences
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The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling
— published 1996 — 15 editions |
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Re-visioning Psychology
— published 1975 — 3 editions |
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The Dream and the Underworld
— published 2004 — 3 editions |
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A Blue Fire
— published 1900 — 6 editions |
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We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy & the World's Getting Worse
by James Hillman, Michael Ventura — published 1992 — 8 editions |
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A Terrible Love of War
— published 2004 — 6 editions |
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The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life
— published 1999 — 7 editions |
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Suicide and the Soul
by James Hillman, Thomas Stephen Szasz — published 1964 — 3 editions |
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Healing Fiction
— published 1998 — 3 editions |
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The Thought of the Heart and the Soul of the World
— published 1998 — 4 editions |
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“To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.”
― James Hillman, Suicide and the Soul
― James Hillman, Suicide and the Soul
“Each life is formed by its unique image, an image that is the essence of that life and calls it to a destiny. As the force of fate, this image acts as a personal daimon, an accompanying guide who remembers your calling.
The daimon motivates. It protects. It invents and persists with stubborn fidelity. It resists compromising reasonableness and often forces deviance and oddity upon its keeper, especially when neglected or opposed. It offers comfort and can pull you into its shell, but it cannot abide innocence. It can make the body ill. It is out of step with time, finding all sorts of faults, gaps, and knots in the flow of life - and it prefers them. It has affinities with myth, since it is itself a mythical being and thinks in mythical patterns.
It has much to do with feelings of uniqueness, of grandeur and with the restlessness of the heart, its impatience, its dissatisfaction, its yearning. It needs its share of beauty. It wants to be seen, witnessed, accorded recognition, particularly by the person who is its caretaker. Metaphoric images are its first unlearned language, which provides the poetic basis of mind, making possible communication between all people and all things by means of metaphors”
― James Hillman
The daimon motivates. It protects. It invents and persists with stubborn fidelity. It resists compromising reasonableness and often forces deviance and oddity upon its keeper, especially when neglected or opposed. It offers comfort and can pull you into its shell, but it cannot abide innocence. It can make the body ill. It is out of step with time, finding all sorts of faults, gaps, and knots in the flow of life - and it prefers them. It has affinities with myth, since it is itself a mythical being and thinks in mythical patterns.
It has much to do with feelings of uniqueness, of grandeur and with the restlessness of the heart, its impatience, its dissatisfaction, its yearning. It needs its share of beauty. It wants to be seen, witnessed, accorded recognition, particularly by the person who is its caretaker. Metaphoric images are its first unlearned language, which provides the poetic basis of mind, making possible communication between all people and all things by means of metaphors”
― James Hillman
“Why do we focus so intensely on our problems? What draws us to them? Why are they so attractive? They have the magnet power of love: somehow we desire our problems; we are in love with them much as we want to get rid of them . . . Problems sustain us -- maybe that's why they don't go away. What would a life be without them? Completely tranquilized and loveless . . . There is a secret love hiding in each problem”
― James Hillman, A Blue Fire
― James Hillman, A Blue Fire
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