After Jesper Juul, I would like to present the perspective of another male psychologist and psychotherapist on the crisis of the masculine role in the family—James Hillman, as expressed in his book The Soul’s Code. According to Hillman, the problem of absent fathers lies in the fact that the pendulum has swung to the opposite […]
James Hillman
- Analytical Psychology
- Carl Gustav Jung
- Ego and the Soul
- Feelings
- How Change Happens
- Individuation
- Kundalini Awakening
- Loneliness
- Parents and Children
- Purpose of Life
- Recommended books
- Selected Articles
- Spiritual Transformation
Following El Collie’s book Branded by the Spirit , here is another work devoted to the phenomenology of awakened kundalini in the human body—one that emerges from the intensity of direct personal experience and lived encounters with this mysterious psycho-spiritual bodily phenomenon.This is Gopi Krishna’s Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man, a book that offers […]
“There is no better means of protecting the individual from depersonalization than the possession of a secret that he either wishes or is obliged to keep.”— Carl Gustav Jung, Autobiography, p. 337 The secret plays a very specific role in the processes of individuation that are connected with the attainment of psychic maturity. Whoever is […]
After learning about the cause of El Collie’s death, I felt the need to know more about the subject of suicide and its connection with the “dark night of the soul.” The processes of spiritual transformation are extraordinarily difficult; therefore, when the moment comes to descend into the depths of the human psyche, it is […]
09.08.2014
James Hillman: The Acorn Theory
“To be born into precisely this body, from precisely these parents, in precisely this place – and all the so-called external circumstances – all these events are interwoven and ordained by the Moirai.” –Plotinus According to James Hillman, a human being’s destiny is shaped by a unique inner image that we carry within us from […]
“Every turn of fate has its interpretation, but it also has its beauty… Even before the story of a life takes shape, life manifests itself as an image. These images wish, first and foremost, to be seen. Even if each of them is indeed laden with meaning and open to analytical dissection, should we rush […]
15.07.2014
Loneliness as an Archetypal Experience
James Hillman’s The Soul’s Code is an extraordinary book. It is imbued with pathos and passion, poetic imagery and soul-healing symbolism, through which Hillman “declares war” on traditional psychology—one that kills the human soul with dry reports, reductionist theories, and diagnoses that pathologize the human spirit. “I intend to declare war on the tradition of […]
