A Blue Fire - James Hillman
Category: Lecture
Tags: Lecture, Misc. Non-fiction
Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins Release date: 04-11-17, James Hillman (April 12, 1926 October 27, 2011) was an American psychologist. He studied at, and then became the leader of studies for, the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich soon after the death of C.G. Jung., Archetypal psychology, Archetypal psychology is a polytheistic psychology that differs from Jungs Analytical Psychology in many ways, in that it attempts to recognize the myriad fantasies and myths that shape and are shaped by our psychological lives. The ego is but one psychological fantasy within an assemblage of fantasies. To illustrate the multiple personifications of psyche Hillman made reference to gods, goddesses, demigods and other imaginal figures which he referred to as sounding boards for echoing life today or as bass chords giving resonance to the little melodies of daily life. Here we can see a difference with orthodox Jungian Psychology. Although he insisted that these figures should not be used as a master matrix again
