Loose Ends: Primary Papers in Archetypal Psychology

by James Hillman

Book Overview

Blending case histories with myth, clinical fact with imaginative meaning, this book, with its profound appreciation of history and biography, of the arts, ideas, and culture, trains the senses to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882143085
• ISBN13: 9780882143088
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Spring Publications
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

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Loose Ends

Blending case histories with myth, clinical fact with imaginative meaning, this book, with its profound appreciation of history and biography, of the arts, ideas, and culture, trains the senses to perceive the face of the soul. In papers on abandonment, nostalgia, betrayal, schism. failure, and masturbation, Hillman shows that pathology belongs intrinsically to the psyche and that it reveals the unchanging, necessary, fecund depths of human nature. A brief note on story pleads for a 'story sense,' a deeply therapeutic awareness of how mythic persons and archetypal events influence the psyche by conditioning perceptions, generating meanings, and shaping our lives, while another essay associates archetypal psychology with neoplatonism, the elegant, cultured, psychological vision of Plotinus, Ficino, and Vico. Together these twelve essays and talks affirm the polyvent, shadowed reality of the psyche and afford an example of subtle, nuanced psychological thought. For psychotherapists, analysts, counselors, and the general reader. --- From book's back cover