Archetypal Psychology Talk

     A place for friends, professionals, interested transients, and invisibles connecting to Archetypal Psychology and James Hillman and related soulful talk and etc …

 

 

 Archetypal Psychology

” is a style of thinking, a fashion of mind, a revisionist engagement on many fronts: therapy, education, literary criticism, medicine, philosophy, and the material world. It assembles and lends its terms and viewpoints to a variety of intellectual concerns in contemporary thought. Eros and a common concern for soul, image and pathology draw individuals from diverse geographical and intellectual areas into rapport with each other for the re-visioning of their ideas and their worlds."

 

Archetypal Psychology

“is not a theoretical system emanating from the thought of one person for whom it is named, then identifying with a small group, becoming a school, and moving into the world in the manner of Freudian or Jungian psychologies; nor does it emerge from a particular clinic, laboratory, or city giving it its name. “

James Hiillman Archetypal Psychology, A Brief Account  p. 5

 

 James Hillman,

"non-founder of not-Hillmanian Psychology"

 

 

 A Bit of History:

 

Much learning does not teach understanding

Otherwise it would have already been taught.

Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed. You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go ever flowing on.

 

HERACLITUS

"Never stepped in same river twice."

 

 

 

 

 

"True companionship thrives only when each individual remembers his or her individuality and does not identify with  others" [Memories, Dreams, Reflections,                                               CG JUNG 356].                                                                              "didn't imitate"

Jung wrote in a letter on January 14, 1946: "I can hope and wish that nobody becomes Jungian," and in the autobiography he said succinctly: "Don't imitate!" [86].

David Miller, "           "

 

 

 

            “The goal                                    

        of my therapy                                

        is eccentricity.”                              

JAMES HILLMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sigmund Freud,

“Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”

 

 

 

“So, as one reflects on Joseph Campbell's work, the question becomes: Who is the true follower of Joseph Campbell? Jesus preached the Kingdom and got the  Church. Jung proclaimed the soul and got the Jung Institute. Campbell told us to follow our own bliss . . . it would be an extreme irony if, in attempting to follow his advice, we ended by following his bliss! “

David Miller, “      “

                                                                                      

DAVID MILLER

“tells it like it is”

 

 

 

 

And now,

On to the talk ...