BookS by James Hillman

"Dream Animals"Hillman joins with artist Margot McLean for a psychological treatment of animals as they appear in our dreams, emotions, thoughts, and the "dayworld" of awake life. Each chapter begins with a painting followed by Hillman's comments that reflect upon his standpoint that animal imagery is independent from our human wants and desires. I suggest that Hillman's edginess relates to his contention that Western society has lost an appreciation or sense of both the autonomy and independence of these images.

→ Preface
→ Introduction
→ Snake
→ Mouse
→ Polar Bear
→ Horses
→ Rat
→ Lions and Tigers
→ Giraffe
→ Pig
→ Bugs

"Healing Fiction"
In this book, Hillman stresses the metaphorical and mythic core of the works of Freud, Jung, and Adler. He suggests that all three were often aware of the narrativa in their theory and practice. Hillman main point is that when the psychological professional takes a narrativa literally that it  narrow and dogmatic, and often counter-productive. He opines that a particular patient's psychic sickness  - their symptoms and fixations  -happen when their views harden into rigid standpoints (adapted from a review by the Library Journal)

→ The Fiction of Case History: A Round with Freud
→ The Pandaemonium of Images: Jung's Contribution to 'Know Thyself'
→ What Does The Soul Want: Adler's Imagination of Inferiority

LIVE DISCUSSION HOSTED ON FACEBOOK: "INTER VIEWS"
The book’s “Inter Views” by James Hillman, records that the actual interview conducted by Laura Pozzo with James Hillman took place in the summer of 1980 (see “Author’s Preface,” p. vii).

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11/18/2012 on Writing

"Blue Fire" an anthology of Hillman's writings:

I. SOUL - 1. The Poetic Basis of Mind: SOUL  / ARCHETYPAL FANTASY  / IMAGINAL METHOD / LANGUAGE  / CONSCIOUSNESS; 2 Many Gods, Many Persons: POLYTHEISM / PERSONS; 3 Imaginal Practice: Greeting the Angel: IDEAS / RESPONDING TO IMAGES / SENSING
IMAGES / IMAGINATION, THE GROUND OF
CERTAINTY  / ANGELIC INTERPRETATION; 4 Therapy: Fictions and Epiphanies: CARE OF THE SOUL  / CASE STORIES / DRAMATIC TENSIONS / PSYCHOLOGICAL FAITH  / THE GUIDING ANIMA.

II. WORLD - 5 Anima Mundi: NATURE ALIVE  / CITY AND SOUL; 6 The Salt of Soul, the Sulfur of Spirit: PEAKS AND VALES  / SOUL AND SPIRIT /
ALCHEMICAL SOLUTIONS / – Divertissement:
RECIPES & FANTASIAS; 7 Pathologizing: The Wound and the Eye: SYMPTOMS / THE MYTH OF NORMALCY / DEPRESSION / WOUNDS  / CULTURAL DISORDER; 8 Psychoanalysis in the Street: EDUCATION  / WORK  / MONEY /
TRANSPORTATION / SEX  / WAR  /
TERRORISM.

III. EROS - 9 Mythology as Family: FAMILY  / FATHER: SATURN AND SENEX  / FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS  / FATHERS AND SONS  / MOTHERS / MOTHERS AND SONS / PUER 226 / CHILD; 10 Dreams and the Blood Soul: WORK WITH DREAMS / ANIMALS  / MOTIFS; 11 Love's Torturous Enchantments: LOVE'S TORTURE / BETRAYAL  / IMAGINAL LOVE; 12 The Divine Face of Things: PSYCHIC BEAUTY / ANIMAL BEAUTY  / THE SHADOW OF AESTHETICS  / THOUGHT OF THE HEART.