53 search results for "James Hillman"

1. idealizations of growth family and relationship Dec 2021
   the ideal of growth makes us feel stunted; the ideal family makes us feel crazy … We have these idealizations that make us feel crazy, even though
   #family #relationship #expectations
2. personal names in tribal societies Dec 2020
   It’s an interesting, very significant detail that in the tribal societies, which we think have the least individuality, people have the most
   #mononym #culture #individuality
3. Hillman - an artist of psychology Sep 2019
   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
   #artist #imagination #empiricism #phenomenology
4. soul and psychological ideas for imaginal world Mar 2024
   Hillman likes the word soul it eludes reductionistic definition; it expresses the mystery of human life; and it connects psychology to religion,
   #imagination #fantasies
5. 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
6. repressing processing ore of imagination Dec 2021
   creative artists are simply models of people who turn to the imagination to work with things. That’s why one needs to read the biographies of
   #artist #imagination #traumatic #therapeutic #consumerism #fantasies
7. 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
8. psychotherapy denies soul in things Dec 2021
   psychotherapy is only working on that “inside” soul removing the soul from the world and not recognizing that the soul is also in the world … having
   #cartesian #worldly #relationship #therapeutic
9. 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
10. 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
11. therapy investigates aggravetes abuse Dec 2020
    Therapy might imagine itself investigating the immediate social causes, even while keeping its vocabulary of abuse and victimization — that we are
    #therapeutic #society #traumatic #memory
12. 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 #coliving #community #ludens #relationship
13. memory is a form of fiction Dec 2020
    any journalist or cop can tell you, if you talk to several different people about an event they all witnessed or participated in, you’ll have
    #journalism #fiction #imagination
14. 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
15. history is our causality developmental psychology Dec 2020
    the principal content of developmental psychology: what happened to you earlier is the cause of what happened to you later. That’s the basic theory:
    #therapeutic #cartesian #scientism #memory
16. 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
17. changeless parts of psyche and pseudoskins Dec 2020
    shedding pseudoskins, crusted stuff that you’ve accumulated, dead wood, things that don’t work anymore, things that don’t keep you alive. Sets of
    #sexuality
18. 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
19. work at personal relationship and love Dec 2020
    Another thing that therapy pushes is “relationship . You think you’re going to die if you’re … not being in a significant, long-lasting, deep
    #relationship #loneliness #belonging #community #expectations
20. 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 #cities
21. Senex and puer in Hillman Sep 2019
    Senex is a style of life and thought characterized by a sense of time and history, a concern for order, a love of tradition, and a tendency toward
    #aging #archetypes #opposition
22. therapist-patient collaborating in a mutual fiction story Dec 2020
    … counter-transference, the therapist-writer’s self-indulgence in the story. Two authors are now collaborating in a mutual fiction of therapy,
    #fiction #therapeutic
23. 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
24. the need to be in love Jan 2020
    displaced persons, always needy, estranged, haunted by an unspoken tragedy that is blamed on parents or betrayals in love, on ailments or forced
    #emotions
25. the mistake of historical literalism Dec 2020
    The core mistake of mechanism in psychology is that it literalizes functions and actions as discrete moving parts, separated from each other. … the
    #fiction #therapeutic
26. 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
27. sophisticated therapeutic class Dec 2020
    The sophisticated “therapeutic class” who come to private therapy have their stories already formed into the therapeutic genre, that is, the story
    #therapeutic #culture
28. solipsism Dec 2020
    is the philosophical idea that only one’s mind is sure to exist as an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything
    #platonism
29. 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
30. 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
31. 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
32. 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
33. 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
34. old wise man who uses diagrams numbers and crystals Dec 2020
    Saturn archetype
    #archetypes
35. 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
36. interior soul neglects exterior world Dec 2021
    the calling does not have to be away from the world or rest upon a theory of self-enclosed individuals. Soul-making and care of soul do not have to
    #cartesian #therapeutic
37. individual impulses felt as compulsion traverses collective Dec 2021
    We could say that something courses through the collective and is picked up and expressed in different mediums by different individuals, and that
    #therapeutic #collective #outformation #artist #compulsion
38. history symptom-making of the psyche Dec 2020
    event becomes an experience, moves from outer to inner, is made into soul, when it goes through a psychological process … Plato gave us main ones:
    #experiential #platonism
39. hero stays on top of any story Dec 2020
    Patricia Berry considers that narrative as such cannot help but reflect the ego’s concerns, because narrative is essentially the genre of the hero
    #heroic
40. growth project of therapy Dec 2020
    growth a huge part of the project of therapy, but the very word grow is a word appropriate to children. After a certain age you do not grow. You
    #existential #therapeutic #consumerism
41. 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
42. 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
43. extending individuation into the world of things Dec 2021
    The only way I can justify still using the term individuation today is by extending it to mean the individuation of each moment in life, each
    #individuality #therapeutic #property #platonism
44. 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
45. empiricism prevents solipsism Dec 2020
    empiricism philosophically “the egocentric predicament” (according to A. J. Ayer) prevents solipsism — gets us out of the circle of our minds by
    #empiricism #platonism
46. dissonance of maximum amplitude Jan 2020
    Leon Festinger, who in 1957 invented the theory of cognitive dissonance, named this a dissonance of maximum amplitude. The mind creates stories to
    #myth #emotions
47. denying world’s body destroys our souls Dec 2021
    we cannot go through the world for our own benefit and that we are actually destroying our souls by an attitude that pretends to save them … even
    #therapeutic #altruism #worldly
48. 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
49. collective obsession with growth Oct 2023
    Curious and perhaps not very subtle correlation between Hillman's words on our obsession with psychological growth and the GDP of economics.
    #archetypes #society #collective #economics
50. 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
51. attitude which interiorizes inner events Dec 2020
    way we imagine our lives is the way we are going to go on living our lives … we tell ourselves about what is going on is the genre through which
    #imagination #fiction #reality
52. 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
53. archetypal fantasy of ego development Dec 2020
    when we conceive our life story as a Battle for Deliverance from the Great Mother – as Jung called it – we are engaged in heroics; these heroics
    #archetypes #fantasies