Occupy Psyche: Jungian and Archetypal Perspectives on a Movement

“we cannot put in order the personal welfare of our souls unless we address the welfare of society” (2006, p. 372).

When we put ourselves “in a position where [we] are having to imagine how to do new things. That is revolution” (p. 218).

Hillman, J. (1995). A Psyche the Size of Earth. In T. Roszak, M. Gomes, A. Kanner (eds.), Ecopsychology:

eat is not right, where the air I breathe is not right, where the architecture in which I spend my time assaults me, the lighting and the chairs and the smells and the plastic are not right. Where the words I hear on TV and are printed in the newspaper are lies, where the people who are in charge of things are not right because they are hypocritica

weeps, cringes, shakes. It’s wrong, simply wrong, what’s going

“And instead of imagining that I am dysfunctional, my family is dysfunctional, you

realize . . . [that] society if dysfunctional. The political process is dysfunctional. And we have to work on cures that are beyond my cure. That’s revolution” (Hillman, 1992, pp. 218-219).

sinks, creeps, crawls,

on here.

don’t know how to do the right thing. I don’t even know what’s right. I have no answer. But I sure smell something wrong with the government . . .