The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Volume 1: The Making of a Psychologist
Dick Russell
Language: English
Pages: 629
ISBN: 2:00196702
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The life of the world’s foremost post-Jungian thinker and bestselling author of The Soul’s Code.
Considered to be the world’s foremost post-Jungian thinker, James Hillman is known as the founder of archetypal psychology and the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling title The Soul’s Code. In The Making of a Psychologist, we follow Hillman from his youth in the heyday of Atlantic City, through post-war Paris and Dublin, travels in Africa and Kashmir, and onward to Zurich and the Jung Institute, which appointed him its first director of studies in 1960. This first of a two-volume authorized biography is the result of hundreds of hours of interviews with Hillman and others over a seven-year period. Discover how Hillman’s unique psychology was forged through his life experiences and found its basis in the imagination, aesthetics, a return to the Greek pantheon, and the importance of “soul-making,” and gain a better understanding of the mind of one of the most brilliant psychologists of the twentieth century. 20 b/w photographs
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He brought along his friend Kenny Donoghue, who’d helped with the earlier effort. Donoghue had been having a hard time. After losing his teaching job at the Vienna International Community School, he wrote Hillman of being “in fact in a state of helplessness,” to which his friend responded with “a $200 transfusion.”40 Then a translator’s post at the Atomic Energy Association had “gone kaput,” resulting in Donoghue’s facing “a crisis, even a disaster,”41 after which Hillman invited him along as a
186. Meier’s “ambition”: JH Email to author, August 23, 2007. 187. Case history vs. soul history: Suicide and the Soul, p. 77. 188. Jacobi attitude toward Hillman: Notes made by Hillman, 1965 (private archive). 189. Infighting among the Jungians: Author interview with JH, 2007. 190. “Ironically, the Jungians had a very clear theory . . . ”: Scott Becker communication with author. 191. Jung ideas “valuable because... ”: Hillman, Inter Views, p. 33. 192. “I think there are two aspects of the
Charcot, Jean-Martin, 422 Chelsea Hotel (Atlantic City), 18, 21–22, 27–29, 40, 101 Chicago stockyards (grandfather toiled), 36 Chiefs and Strangers (J. Buxton), 283 child, cult of, 169, 170, 327. See also innocence Chopra, Deepak, 358–59 Christian Herald (magazine), 613 Christianity. See also Jesus of Nazareth (Christ) betrayal “at the heart of,” 510 critique of, 104 impact of on individual, 204 J. Krauskopf on, 73 of Jung, 357, 530–31, 585 and “metamorphosis of the Gods,” 592–93
refugees in, 429 Ireland contrasted with for JH, 486 as “land of solidity,” 406 and legal aspects of JH “scandal,” 571–72, 581, 613, 623–24 as psychiatric center, 72, 367, 368, 442 “spirit... in the dirt and the crud,” 407 “a very moral atmosphere,” 395n16, 485 “The Symbolic Life” (Jung), 509 symptoms, xx, 346, 423, 437, 455, 615 Szondi, Léopold, 368 Szondi test, 368 Le Tabou (jazz “cellar”), 153–54, 162 Talese, Gay, 150–51 Tamari, Batia, 172–73, 193, 347 Tarnas, Richard, xxiii
political refugee who would take James and other students to nightclubs and, over a few beers, explain how Standard Oil had been ruining the country until Mexico nationalized the oilfields in the thirties. “Mexico was deeply socialistic at that time, a huge social revolution going on in favor of the peasants,” Hillman recalled. “So for me, this was a political awakening, a shift away from the Republicanism of my father and grandfather. I really began to see poor people for the first time. Also,