53 search results for "James Hillman"
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
#ludens
#relationship
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
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
#dionysian
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
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
#imagination
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
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
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
#expectations
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
#cities
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
old wise man who uses diagrams numbers and crystals
Dec 2020
Saturn archetype #archetypes
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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