Sublime

Following in Jung’s footsteps, James Hillman (1926–2011) – an American psychologist who studied at and then was Director of Studies at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich, Switzerland – founded “archetypal psychology,” a post-Jungian approach rooted in the archetypal basis of psyche. Archetypal psychology focuses on the myriad fantasies and myths

Start with Barbara Hannah's book, Encounters with the Soul (1981), or Robert Johnson's Inner Work (1986). Also

projection rises from a neglected but dynamic value within us; usually it is essentially unconscious, but has a certain energy, which, when we have not attended it consciously, escapes repression and enters the world as a hope, a project, an agenda, a fantasy, or a renewal of expectation. No one rises in the morning and says, “I will make a

“social bonds”—it’s

How can we make sense of our lives, and hold people accountable for their choices, given the unconscious origins of our conscious minds?

William James, the father of modern psychology, said it best nearly a century and a half ago, and his wisdom has been sadly forgotten. Life is in the transitions.

He is not the author, there is a prophetic figure in him whom he then steps back from. There’s a differentiation of the voices.

This means that the most basic and essential question for a person to raise concerning the conduct of his life cannot be the normative question of how he should live. That question can sensibly be asked only on the basis of a prior answer to the factual question of what he actually does care about. If he cares about nothing, he cannot even begin to