New Releases by James Hillman

Se il suicidio è certamente il più violato fra i tabù – oggi più che mai, come testimoniano le cronache –, rimane nondimeno, nella percezione comune, lo scandalo supremo, il gesto inaccettabile. Il diritto lo ha giudicato per molto tempo un reato; la religione lo considera peccato, condannandolo come atto di ribellione e apostasia; la società lo rifiuta, tendendo a sottacerlo o a giustificarlo con la follia, quasi fosse l''aberrazione antisociale per eccellenza. E non si può dire che siano mancate riflessioni e analisi – da John Donne a Hume, da Voltaire a Schopenhauer, da Durkheim alla messe di studi psicologici e psichiatrici – volte a spiegarlo. Il problema, nella sua essenza, è rimasto intatto. James Hillman capovolge qui ogni prospettiva. Come egli stesso scrive, non senza vigore polemico, questo libro «mette in discussione la prevenzione del suicidio; va a indagare l''esperienza della morte; accosta la questione del suicidio non dal punto di vista della vita, della società e della “salute mentale”, bensì in relazione alla morte e all''anima. Considera il suicidio non soltanto come una via di uscita dalla vita, ma anche come una via di ingresso nella morte». Poiché nell''esperienza della morte l''anima trova una rigenerazione, l''impulso suicida non va necessariamente concepito come una mossa contro la vita, ma come un andare incontro al bisogno imperioso di una vita più piena. Più che di essere spiegato, ci dice in sostanza Hillman, il suicidio attende di essere compreso.

First published in 1990. James Hillman is one of the leading figures in archetypal psychology and one of the most creative minds in psychology. This anthology of his writings presents carefully selected, choice passages from many of his seminal essays and work on archetypal psychology. Fundamental themes in Hillman''s thought form the chapters of the book: poetic basis of mind, psychological polytheism, dreams, love, therapy. The book is intended for the reader who wants an overview or introduction to his highly original approach, an approach that draws on mythology, renaissance philosophy, alchemy and critical readings of Jung and Freud.

With Jung’s Red Book as their point of departure, two leading scholars explore issues relevant to our thinking today. In this book of dialogues, James Hillman and Sonu Shamdasani reassess psychology, history, and creativity through the lens of Carl Jung’s Red Book. Hillman, the founder of Archetypal Psychology, was one of the most prominent psychologists in America and is widely acknowledged as the most original figure to emerge from Jung’s school. Shamdasani, editor and cotranslator of Jung’s Red Book, is regarded as the leading Jung historian. Hillman and Shamdasani explore a number of the issues in the Red Book—such as our relation with the dead, the figures of our dreams and fantasies, the nature of creative expression, the relation of psychology to art, narrative and storytelling, the significance of depth psychology as a cultural form, the legacy of Christianity, and our relation to the past—and examine the implications these have for our thinking today.

In the boldest expose on the nature of power since Machiavelli, celebrated Jungian therapist James Hillman shows how the artful leader uses each of two dozen kinds of power with finesse and subtlety. Power, we often forget, has many faces, many different expressions. "Empowerment," writes best-selling Jungian analyst James Hillman, "comes from understanding the widest spectrum of possibilities for embracing power." If food means only meat and potatoes, your body suffers from your ignorance. When your idea of food expands, so does your strength. So it is with power. "James Hillman," says Robert Bly, "is the most lively and original psychologist we have had in America since William James." In Kinds Of Power, Hillman addresses himself for the first time to a subject of great interest to business people. He gives much needed substance to the subject by showing us a broad experience of power, rooted in the body, the rnind, and the emotions, rather than the customary narrow interpretation that simply equates power with strength. Hillman''s "anatomy" of power explores two dozen expressions of power every artful leader must understand and use, including: the language of power, control, influence, resistance, leadership, prestige, authority, exhibitionism, charisma, ambition, reputation, fearsomeness, tyranny, purism, subtle power, growth, and efficiency.

±La guerra nunca termina, ni siquiera cuando se canta victoria. Inherente al ser humano, lo ha acompañado como una sombra a través del tiempo y el espacio. La guerra es, pues, normal: no sólo engendra el cosmos (Heráclito), sino que constituye el estado natural del hombre (Hobbes, Kant); más aún, el ser se revela como guerra (Lévinas): de ella surge la estructura misma de la existencia -individual y social- y nuestra manera de pensarla. Pero paradójicamente la guerra es ±inhumana: aunque la lleven a cabo hombres, éstos actúan poseídos por potencias que los rebasan y transforman, potencias que la mitología identificaba con dioses. La guerra tiene vida propia, no está sujeta al control humano, existe sólo para sí: la comprensión de este hecho, ignorado por los modelos seculares, implica el cabal entendimiento de lo que la guerra engendra en los hombres: atracción, culto y, en última instancia, un ±terrible amor. En un mundo en el que la violencia es omnipresente y multiforme, James Hillman concluye que ±la guerra es el fundamento del ser, como lo son la muerte y el amor, la belleza y el terror, y que no hay solución racional ante el amor que provoca sino el encauzamiento de éste hacia la pasión estética. No sólo nos aleja de la ±ignorancia voluntaria en que estamos inmersos sino que, al mismo tiempo, nos otorga una novedosa perspectiva para hacer frente a la guerra y la violencia desde sus propias entrañas.

O autor faz uma análise de questões que levam ao suicídio, como o ódio ao corpo, o sado-masoquismo, a chantagem, a vingança, a agressão. Para James Hillman são importantes as abordagens tradicionais da medicina psiquiátrica, da religião e do direito: segundo essas perspectivas importa salvar a vida a qualquer preço, o suicídio por sua natureza deve ser impedido. Mas também lembra: o suicídio não deve ser apenas visto como "uma saída da vida", mas como "uma entrada na alma". Não deve ser tomado apenas de forma literal, mas simbólica, dentro da perspectiva da alma. Também aqui a alma adquire na vistão de Hillman uma importância central, ela é o centro da vida psíquica e todo fenômeno psicológico à alma deve ser referido.

This book collects all of James Hillman''s papers on the alchemical imagination from 1980 to the present: "Therapeutic Value of alchemical Language"; "Silver and the White Earth I & II"; "Alchemical Blue and the Unio Mentalis"; "Salt: A Chapter in Alchemical Psychology"; "rudiments: Fire. Ovens, Vessels, Fuel, Glass"; "The Imagination of air and the collapse of alchemy"; "The Yellowing of the Work"; "White Supremacy"; "Concerning the Stone - Alchemical Images of the Goal"; "The Azure Vault: Caelum as Experience."

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Soul’s Code engages in a wide-ranging dialogue that “bursts with vigorous ideas, tangents, and humor” (Library Journal). This furious, trenchant, and audacious series of interrelated dialogues and letters takes a searing look at not only the legacy of psychotherapy, but also practically every aspect of contemporary living—from sexuality to politics, media, the environment, and life in the city. James Hillman—controversial renegade Jungian psychologist and the man Robert Bly called “the most lively and original psychologist we’ve had in America since William James”—joins with Michael Ventura, cutting-edge columnist for the L.A. Weekly, to shatter many of our current beliefs about our lives, the psyche, and society. Unrestrained, freewheeling, and brilliant, these two intellectual wild men take chances, break rules, and run red lights to strike at the very core of our shibboleths and perceptions. “All sorts of fresh ideas.” —Los Angeles Times “Thought-provoking, fun, and not quite like anything else.” —Library Journal “Range[s] energetically over such subjects as psychotherapy, politics and aesthetics, method acting and postwar ideas of the self, child abuse and inner child theory, romantic love, and America’s tradition of anti-intellectualism . . . Seductive precisely because if offers two live voices actively engaged.” —The Washington Post

Since the 1980s James Hillman, the best-selling author and founder of Archetypal Psychology has written and lectured extensively on the presence of animals in our conscious and unconscious lives. Volume 9 of the Uniform Edition of the Writings of James Hillman unites, for the first time, his papers and lectures on the subjects of animals, including "Animal Kingdom in the Human Dream" (1982), "Dream Animals" (1997), "Culture and the Animal Soul" (1994/1997), and "Learning from Animals" (1999).

Volume 6.1 of the Uniform Edition of the Writings of James Hillman features lectures, occasional writings, scholarly essays, and clinical papers on the subject of mythical figures, including "Athene, Ananke and Abnormal Psychology" (1977), "Dionysus in Jung''s Writings" (1972), "Pink Madness, or Why Does Aphrodite Drive Men Crazy With Pornography?" (1995), "Mars, Wars, Arms, Rams" (1987), and "Moses, Alchemy, Authority" (2001).

The second volume of the James Hillman Uniform Edition consolidate Hillman''s papers and lectures on the subject of politics, ecology, and urban affairs, such as "Psychoanalysis, Self, and Community," "Culture and the Animal Soul," "Natural Beauty without Nature," "City, Sport, and Violence," and "Where Is The Environment?"

War is a timeless force in the human imagination—and, indeed, in daily life. Engaged in the activity of destruction, its soldiers and its victims discover a paradoxical yet profound sense of existing, of being human. In A Terrible Love of War, James Hillman, one of today’s most respected psychologists, undertakes a groundbreaking examination of the essence of war, its psychological origins and inhuman behaviors. Utilizing reports from many fronts and times, letters from combatants, analyses by military authorities, classic myths, and writings from great thinkers, including Twain, Tolstoy, Kant, Arendt, Foucault, and Levinas, Hillman’s broad sweep and detailed research bring a fundamentally new understanding to humanity’s simultaneous attraction and aversion to war. This is a compelling, necessary book in a violent world.

En este libro, James Hillman desarrolla una teoría de los sueños cuyos únicos precedentes son las de Freud y Jung. Tomando como punto de partida las ideas de este último acerca del inconsciente colectivo, Hillman utiliza los conceptos clásicos en términos mitológicos. Da cuenta de nuestra vida onírica recurriendo a los mitos del inframundo –el lado oscuro del alma, sus imágenes y sus sombras—y a las representaciones de los dioses y de la muerte. Y ello le conduce a una revisión de la interpretación de los sueños en relación con la psicología del “morir”. La obra concluye con una hermosa disertación sobre las imágenes y los temas específicos de los sueños tal como aparecen en la práctica de la psicología. El sueño y el inframundo es el mejor libro de Hillman, pues profundiza con gran fuerza en las teorías que ya expuso en dos de sus textos anteriores, El mito del análisis y Re-imaginar la psicología.

A dialogue on the matters fundamental of our time.

En esta obra, básica para la comprensión de la psicología arquetípica, Hillman lleva a cabo una sólida, fresca y original exposición crítica de los conceptos fundamentales del análisis junguiano: transferencia, inconsciente y neurosis. Tanto los lectores de Jung como los no junguianos encontrarán en este ensayo una poderosa perspectiva histórico-cultural del lenguaje psicológico y de los procesos terapéuticos, un «análisis del análisis» de la psicología de Jung lleno de implicaciones plenas de sentido para la práctica de todo tipo de psicoterapias. Hillman examina en este libro los conceptos de «mito», «cuerpo», «eros» y el mitema de la «inferioridad femenina», así como la necesidad de libertad para imaginar y sentir la realidad psíquica. Analizando estas ideas y el papel que todas ellas han jugado dentro y fuera del mundo terapéutico, Hillman penetrará en los fundamentos que han dominado hasta ahora la psicoterapia con el fin de abatir sus pilares básicos y proponer su sustitución, abriendo de este modo los nuevos interrogantes de la era postanalítica.

In his powerful bestseller The Soul''s Code, James Hillman brilliantly illuminated the central importance of character to our spiritual and emotional lives. Now, in this magnificent new book, Hillman completes his exploration of character with a profound and revolutionary reflection on life''s second half. "Character requires the additional years," declares Hillman. "The last years confirm and fulfill character." Far from blunting or dulling the self, the accumulation of experience concentrates the essence of our being, heightening our individual mystery and unique awareness of life. Drawing on his grounding in Jungian psychology, Hillman explains here the archetypes and myths that govern the self''s realignment in our final years. The Force of Character follows an enriching journey through the three stages of aging--lasting, the deepening that comes with longevity; leaving, the preparation for departure; and left, the special legacy we each bestow on our survivors. Along the way the book explores the meanings and often hidden virtues of characteristic physical and emotional changes, such as loss of memory, alterations in sleep patterns, and the mysterious upsurge in erotic imagination. Steeped in the wisdom of a lifetime, radiant with Hillman''s reading in philosophy, poetry, and sacred texts, charged with a piercing clarity, The Force of Character is a book that will change--and affirm--the lives of all who read it.

El autor plantea en este libro que el control, sobre todos los aspectos de nuestra existencia, el sentimiento que domina nuestra voluntad y emociones.

Tanto «El pensamiento del corazón» (1981) como «Anima mundi: el retorno del alma al mundo» (1982) constituyen dos innovadores ensayos que arrojan la psicología arquetípica, iniciada por C. G. Jung, hacia una nueva dirección: el mundo. James Hillman denomina a ésta «psicología profunda de la extroversión», una terapia que va más allá de la consulta y de las concepciones personalistas y que pretende enseñarnos a recuperar una vida del corazón y del alma partiendo del platonismo, Ficino y Henry Corbin. El examen que Hillman desarrolla sintéticamente en su primer ensayo trata de eliminar ideas mecanicistas preconcebidas o personalistas, para mostrarnos que el corazón es el asiento de la imaginación, pues ésta es la auténtica voz del corazón. Una voz que habla siempre imaginativamente, ya que su pensamiento se expresa a través de sus imágenes. Para Hillman, el conocimiento del mundo no debe olvidar la «inteligencia del corazón» si quiere describir el mundo fielmente.

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A foray into the archetypal psychology treatment of lost souls. Course work and traditional training leave no adequate tools for therapists to help some of those souls described as lost. This book explains how archetypal psychology can be used to build a new, alternative therapy,

De todas las ramas del psicoanalisis, la mas sorprendente es, sin duda, la que anuncia su disolucion; y de todos los representantes de esta tendencia el mas controvertido es, sin duda tambien, James Hillman, porque su particular cuestionamiento de la labor terapeutica tradicional no proviene de disciplinas que discrepen, o puedan discrepar, con la psicologia profunda (psiquiatria, filosofia, sociologia, etc.), sino de la propia psique, como demostrara este libro.La obra de Hillman parte de tres intuiciones fundamentales de Jung (la psique crea la realidad cada dia; la psique es imagen; la psique es una pluralidad de arquetipos) que se desarrollan y amplifican en una obra que no es solo la aportacion mas innovadora de la psicologia profunda de los ultimos anos, sino tambien una formidable literatura al servicio de la imaginacion, sus raices mitopoeticas, su inmanencia y ubicuidad y, en fin, su capacidad de devolvernos a los dioses (las imagenes arquetipicas) que nos arrebato la monolatria, una monolatria que, incapaz de convivir con ellos, sigue hoy activa en el imperialismo que ejerce el ego sobre la diversidad de perspectivas de la conciencia.