Alchemical Psychology Quotes

“This is the emancipation of the nigredo from literalism. Like cures like; we cure the nigredo by becoming, as the texts say, blacker than black – archetypally black, and thereby no longer colored by all-too-human prejudices of color.”
― James Hillman, Alchemical Psychology

“Drying releases the soul from personal subjectivism, and, as the moisture recedes, that vivacity once usurped by feeling can now pass over into imagination.”
― James Hillman, Alchemical Psychology

“Attention does for consciousness what our hands do for our bodies: it grabs hold of nature so that we can change it”
― James Hillman, Alchemical Psychology: Uniform Edition of the Writings of James Hillman, Vol. 5

“the connection between psychology and literature, to suggest their interchangeability.”
― James Hillman, Alchemical Psychology

“The first way has been excellently presented by David Holt in his lecture on “Jung and Marx.” [1] There Holt shows that Jung imagined his work to be theoretically and historically substantiated by alchemy, and that Jung spent a”
― James Hillman, Alchemical Psychology