Hillman - an artist of psychology

• 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