23 search results for "James Hillman"

1. therapy mistakes knowing precedes doing Dec 2021
   emotions are mainly social, they connect to the world … therapy introverts the emotions calls fear “anxiety” …, and you work on it inside yourself.
   #cartesian #therapeutic #philosophical
2. factual history claims literal truth Dec 2020
   … factual history, a true account or knowledge about the “succession of events through which anything passes … a lie when it claims literal truth.
   #fantasies #scientism
3. extending individual therapy to collective Dec 2021
   We’re not attacking therapy so much as trying to extend it, reveal its blind spots … it’s not the idea of doing therapy that is wrong; there are
   #phenomenology #therapeutic #discovery #collective
4. poiesis of psychoanalysis Dec 2020
   Psychoanalysis is a work of imaginative tellings in the realm of poiesis, which means simply “making,” and which I take to mean making by
   #therapeutic #imagination #poetry
5. therapeutic fiction genre Dec 2020
   fictions are mental constructs, fantasies by means of which we fashion or “fiction” (fingere) a life or a person into a case history Portnoy’s
   #fantasies #fiction #therapeutic
6. fantasy of growth in therapy Dec 2020
   the fantasy of growth that you find in therapy, and also in New Age thought, doesn’t include this awkwardness … when we look at people going through
   #therapeutic #fantasies
7. child archetype worship Dec 2020
   the therapy thing—you go back to your childhood. But if you’re looking backward, you’re not looking around. This trip backward constellates what
   #therapeutic #archetypes
8. rewriting undigested remnants Dec 2020
   going backwards – regression belongs to the digestive mode … a good deal of remembering, its pain, its shame, is recapitulation, revising the
   #journaling #journey #restorying
9. continually internalizing and externalizing process Dec 2020
   affirm psychic reality in another way – not by copying the literalistic metaphors, the fantasies of fixity and hardness, that we use for outer
   #fantasies #hindu #reality
10. archetypal gods and literary reflection Dec 2020
    how different gods can be linked with genres … gravity with Saturn, speed with Mercury, beauty with Venus, vehemence with Mars … the god of
    #archetypes
11. masochistic enjoyment of psychological horrors Dec 2020
    senselessness derives from a breakdown in the thematic motif: it no longer holds events together and gives them sense, … provides the mode of
    #experiential #fiction #hermetism #reality
12. see the literature in psychology Dec 2020
    therapists are not aware enough that we are singers … ways of narration are limited to four kinds: epic, comic, detective, social realism … take
    #therapeutic #artist
13. therapy wordly skills and power Dec 2021
    Explores the contrast between therapy's focus on inner growth and the lack of worldly skills gained, questioning the assumption that personal development directly translates into external power.
    #therapeutic #memory #fantasies #intelligence
14. self-sufficient villages not families Dec 2021
    for thousands of year’s no family was self-sufficient, each - a working unit, a part of the larger working unit, which was the community. Tribes and
    #family #living #community #play #relationship
15. convivo ergo sum Dec 2021
    The idea of self has to be redefined. Even if this inner divine is disguised as a self-steering, autonomous, homeostatic, balancing mechanism; or
    #cartesian #theology #community #imagination
16. to live consumerism rather than community Jan 2020
    the uprooted and hurried condition of modern city life and impersonal work have created a social condition of anomie We have become mere numbers. We
    #urabnism #consumerism #community
17. psychotherapy assumption processing traumas Dec 2021
    our assumption, our fantasy, in psychoanalysis has been that we’re going to process, we’re going to grow, and we’re going to level things out so
    #fantasies #culture #therapeutic
18. systematically connecting function of consciousness Dec 2020
    hermetic writing where connections do not close up but open and reveal; aphroditic where the eye is on sensate value, personal relatings, perhaps,
    #dionysian #hermetism
19. psychotherapy pushes people into forced false normality Dec 2021
    the conviction that psychotherapy needs desperately to push past the boundaries of its accepted ideas; it needs a new wildness before it’s co-opted
    #normalcy #therapeutic
20. platonic ideas somatic education and soul Nov 2021
    the real progenitor of somatic education was Plato, whose philosophy of Soul, or intrinsic, organic, individual Being is just what is most central
    #platonism
21. individual neighbours separated actual self Dec 2021
    family I won’t accept these simple opposites—either individual self in control or a totalitarian , mindless mob. This kind of fantasy keeps us
    #family #authority #community #dionysian
22. picaresque mode parody of the individuation Dec 2020
    the realm of picaresque reflection, of seeing through every established stance, yet without moral implication … to the society which to the
    #individuality #culture #conformity
23. acorn figures inner people Dec 2020
    what matters is that you have an acorn in you, you are a certain person, and that person begins to appear early in your life, but it’s there all the
    #family #outformation