Most Popular Books by James Hillman

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.

Edited by the distinguished philosopher Edward S. Casey, Philosophical Intimations, Volume 8 of the Uniform Edition of the Writings of James Hillman, collects Hillman''s papers and lectures on language and learning; cosmology, metaphysics, and mathematics; philosophy of psychology; the aesthetic dimension; and future time; as well as three conversations with Casey on the need for metaphysics.

"I have learned that persons suffer unwittingly from the influence of impersonal ideas as much as from personal relationships, memories, fears, and traumas. Ideas we do not know we have, have us. They hold our minds in their grip. This means that therapy of people and their problems cannot proceed without therapy of ideas and their problems. Often these hidden ideas are stereotypes, that is, ideas that have become repeated for so long that they have hardened into facts and truths. (Stereos, Greek for stiff, hard, firm, stubborn, solid.) Stereotypes might also be defined as assumptions of collective consciousness that dull our perceptions and our wits. They substitute for thought because they come first to mind and are usually widely shared. So, the psychological task with these hidden, unthought ideas is to think them afresh and free a problem from their deadening effect. This is exactly what I want us to be doing now: enter the tangle of welfare and sort through some of the typical ideas that keep it such a hard and stubborn problem"- James Hillman

This volume presents the 100 year history of a leading multinational in mens luxury clothing and one of the oldest business families in Italy, Ermenegildo Zegna.

Detailed day-to-day chronical of events and persons in Western Australia, as well as details of an extended tour to the Eastern States in 1878.