Re-Visioning Psychology
by James Hillman
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This groundbreaking classic explores the necessity of connections between our life and soul and developing the main lines of the soul-making process.Tags
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Ground breaking work based on the Terry Lectures which Hillman gave at Yale in the early seventies. This book definitely can change one's thinking. Hillman has written nothing better.
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James Hillman was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey on April 12, 1926. He attended the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University for two years before joining the Navy's Hospital Corps in 1944. He studied English literature in Paris at the Sorbonne and graduated with a degree in mental and moral science from Trinity College in Dublin. In show more 1953, he moved to Zurich and enrolled at the C. G. Jung Institute. In 1959, he became the director of studies at the institute and stayed in that position for the next 10 years. He wrote over 20 books including Suicide and the Soul, Re-Visioning Psychology, and The Soul's Code. He died due to complications of bone cancer on October 27, 2011 at the age of 85. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Terry Lectures (1971-1972)
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- Original title
- Re-visioning Psychology
- Original publication date
- 1975
- Epigraph
- . . . man is but a paltry thing, / A tattered coat upon a stick, unless / Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing / For every tatter in its mortal dress, / Nor is there singing school but studying / Monuments of its own... (show all) significance . . . -- Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium"
- Dedication
- To the Reader, without whom all is Vanity
- First words
- Preface: A Memoir from the Author for the 1992 Edition: The following pages are so crammed with ideas, arguments, quotes, and references that the most diverting move I can make upon reissuing this book might simply be to reco... (show all)nstruct the occasions of its writing; that is, to complement its content with a personal memoir.
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- English
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