Best Selling Books by James Hillman

A deeper, richer portrait of Oedipus, the most famous figure in all of Greek tragedy and the (unconscious?!) hero of the basic myth of psychoanalysis by two giants in the fields of mythology and psychology: the eminent mythographer Karl Kerényi and the founder of archetypal psychology, James Hillman. Kerényi widens the Oedipus myth''s cultural context by introducing unusual dramatic versions that played in Rome, Paris, Vienna, and London. His authoritative and detailed essays release wonderful insights for even the most casual reader. Hillman takes on Father Freud and his Oedipus complex (i.e., every son wants to kill his father and marry his mother). He inverts the emphasis and asks, Why do fathers kill their sons? Hillman brilliantly proposes that the madness of Oedipus may lie less in his overt crimes than in his-and therapy''s-single-minded focus upon "figuring out" one''s true identity through a remembering of the past. This relentless search for Oedipus to "know himself" is still with us, still blinds us, still tries to turn people in therapy into Oedipus. Yet Hillman also shows us that, in addition to the curse, murder, incest, and disease, the myth of Oedipus contains beauty, blessing, love, and loyalty.

This volume includes the major Eranos lecture "The Animal Kingdom in the Human Dream," and Hillman''s contributions to the out-of-print "bestiary" Dream Animals (with Margot McLean), as well as the essays "Going Bugs"; "Nature in the Doghouse"; "The Elephant in the Garden of Eden"; "Imagination is Bull"; and shorter interviews and penetrating conversations on the animal theme.

Presents poems by a variety of poets, drawn from around the world and throughout the ages, selected especially for their appeal to men.

Have you ever watched and listened to any “science versus religion” debate and wondered if they were arguing from facts or emotions? It could be argued emotions, and this is where I make my case. Please note that I’m not trying to shoot down either side but trying to point some things that could improve their debate.

This volume collects Hillman''s papers and lectures on the main figures of mythology, including Dionysus, Oedipus, Moses, Mars, and Athene: "Dionysus in Jung''s Writings"; "Athene, Ananke, and the Necessity of Abnormal Psychology"; "The Inside of Strategies: Athene"; "Abandoning the Child"; "Wars, Arms, Rams, Mars"; "... And Huge Is Ugly: Zeus and the Titans"; "Oedipus Revisited"; "Pink Madness or Why Does Aphrodite Drive Man Crazy with Pornography?"; "In: Hestia''s Preposition"; "Hera, Goddess of Marriage"; "Hermes Intoxication"; "A Note on Hermes Inflation"; "Moses, Alchemy, Authority"; "The Call of the God Okeanos"; "Orpheus"; "Good Mother Earth: Imaginal or Literal"; "Apollo, Dream, Reality"; and "Joseph Campbell: Myth As Hero."

Forty-two chapters comprise Hillman''s writings on the psychology of public affairs: urbanism, environmental aesthetics, citizenship, and politics. The essays and talks divide into four groups: Patient as Citizen; Politics of Beauty; Places of Practice; and Responsive Environmentalism. Edited by Robert J. Leaver and introduced by Gail Thomas.

James Hillman''s work has influenced innumerable analysts, psychologists, philosophers, artists, culture critics, and more. The dissemination of his writings has inspired challenging and individual psychological productions world-wide. In this volume, Stanton Marlan has brought together a collection of 27 papers by well-known authors whose work expresses the fecundity and influence of Archetypal Psychology at its best. In addition to these seminal essays, there are many rare photographs, as well as an excerpt from the developing official biography of Hillman. This book highlights the importance, both of Hillman''s original contributions, and of current developments in this field.

Edited by Glen Slater PART I: OPENINGS Senex and Puer: An Aspect of the Historical and Psychological Present (1967) Peaks and Vales: The Soul/Spirit Distinction as Basis for the Differences Between Psychotherapy and Spiritual Discipline (1976) Notes on Opportunism (1972) PART II: MOVEMENTS AND PATHOLOGIES The Great Mother, Her Son, Her Hero, and the Puer (1973) Notes on Verticality: Creation, Transcendence, Ambition, Erection, Inflation (2002) Pothos: The Nostalgia of the Puer Eternus (1974) Betrayal (1964) Puer Wounds and Ulysses'' Scar PART III: SENEX On Senex Consciousness (1970) The "Negative" Senex and a Renaissance Solution (1975) PART IV: OLD AND NEW Coda: A Note on Methodology (From The Souls Code) (1996) Old and New/Senex and Puer (From Inter Views) (1983) Of Milk . . . and Monkeys (1967)

Moving Jungian psychology from types to images, to an image-based archetypal psychology, is James Hillman''s concern in this volume. This volume leads from Hillman''s principal essay on typology, "Egalitarian Typologies versus the Perception of the Unique," to his expansive "Inquiry into Image." Hillman instigates an active re-visioning, re-imagining, of psychology as a self-generative activity of the soul: "An image is given by the imagining perspective and can only be perceived by an act of imagining."

This expansive volume collects Hillman''s papers and lectures on Language and Learning; Cosmology, Metaphysics, and Mathematics; Philosophy of Psychology; Animals and the Environmen; The Aesthetic Dimension; Religious Dimensions of Archetypal Psychology; Conversations and Controversies; and Future Time.

In part two, of a two part set, Hillman discusses his ideas at a Seminar in Rowe Massachusetts during 1990. "The result is Hillmen revisions himself, his work, and archetypal psychology as he finds it today."

Inhuman Relations, Vol. 7 of the Uniform Edition of the Writings of James Hillman, contains what could be described as Hillman''s more "clinical" writings. Hillman chose the title, Inhuman Relations, to emphasize the archetypal forces that shape our human interactions-the myths behind our messes, as he says in this volume.With this volume, Hillman decided to return to his groundbreaking book on soul-making, Re-Visioning Psychology, and organize most of essays under that book''s original operative headings: Personifying or Imagining Things, Pathologizing or Falling Apart, Dehumanizing or Soul-Making, and Psychologizing or Seeing Through. The 24 essays in this volume illustrate these operations and allow the reader not only to appreciate their wide-ranging content, but also to become aware of their experiential influence.

This brilliant book brings Pan back to life by following C.G. Jung''s famous saying that the gods have become our diseases. Chapters on nightmare panic, masturbation, rape and nympholepsy, instinct and synchronicity, and Pan''s female lovers - Echo, Syrinx, Selene, and the Muses - show the goat-god at work and play in the dark drives and creative passions of our lives. (Includes a full translation of EPHIALTES, Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher''s masterful nineteenth-century mythological-pathological treatise on Pan and the demons of the night).

Alchemical Psychology combines all of Hillman''s papers on the alchemical imagination from 1980 to the present. Hillman called the early attempt to present his way of grasping this material, in the 1960s at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, "Alchemical Opus/AnalyticalWork." His intention then as now is to give psychoanalysis another method for imagining its ideas and procedures by showing how alchemy bears directly on psychological life, more clinically immediate and less spiritually progressivist.