James Hillman

Psychologist

1926-04-12

Books by James Hillman

The Soul's Code
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Archetypal psychology
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The myth of analysis
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Quotes by James Hillman

Psychology ideally means giving soul to language and finding language for soul.
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Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.
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The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination.
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...you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically important to see generously, or you will get only what you see; to see sharply, so that you discern the mix of traits rather than a generalized lump; and to see deeply into dark shadows, or else you will be deceived.
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What door is opened into soul through our wounds.
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I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche...
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To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.
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What door is opened into soul through our wounds.
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...you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically important to see generously, or you will get only what you see; to see sharply, so that you discern the mix of traits rather than a generalized lump; and to see deeply into dark shadows, or else you will be deceived.
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Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.
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I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche...
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Psychology ideally means giving soul to language and finding language for soul.
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The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination.
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To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.
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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?
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Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.
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Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle.
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In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.
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The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.
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I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate.
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