re-visioning writing about psychology; style and imagination are method; empiricism has it’s own style and need not be taken literally on it’s own terms
he sees his writing as a way to animate psychoanalysis take it out of the context of medicine .. in subtle ways: asking us to give up fantasies of cure, repair, growth, self-improvement, understanding, and well-being as primary motives for psychological work;
Hillman’s way of depersonalizing and deliteralizing himself as author; his book “Healing Fiction” radically probes the most fundamental presuppositions of the therapeutic industry;
like the artist, he seeks to engage; he allows phenomena to show themselves for our contemplation; roots in Husserlian phenomenology
Hillman’s influences: Martin Heidegger
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collective obsession with growth Curious and perhaps not very subtle correlation between Hillman's words on our obsession with psychological growth and the GDP of economics.
Selected Writings introduced by Thomas Moore Hillman - an artist of psychology Senex and puer in Hillman he uses intellect to fortify imagination, because it is image, imagination, and the
Senex and puer in Hillman Senex is a style of life and thought characterised by a sense of time and history, a concern for order, a love of tradition, and a tendency toward
platonic ideas somatic education and soul the real progenitor of somatic education was Plato, whose philosophy of Soul, or intrinsic, organic, individual Being is just what is most central