CARL JUNG AND THE KABBALAH
James Hillman
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An American analyst who trained at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich from 1953, met Jung there, took his analyst’s diploma in 1959 and served as the Institute’s director of studies until 1969 — then broke from Jungian orthodoxy to found archetypal psychology, a discipline that keeps Jung’s vocabulary of archetype and image while rejecting his central organizing claim.
⭐⭐⭐ THE DISCIPLE WHO ARGUED BACK, NAMED AND KEPT ARGUING. Where Jung’s individuation aims at a unified Self, Hillman’s Re-Visioning Psychology (1975) proposes a deliberately polytheistic psyche — many gods, many images, none of them subordinate to a single center — and treats staying with the image, rather than interpreting it, as the discipline itself. His last books, The Soul’s Code (1997) and A Terrible Love of War (2004), extend the same refusal of a single tidy wholeness to a person’s calling and to war itself. ⚠ Hillman is the clearest case in this wing of a disciple who took what he was given and then, in public and by name, argued Jung was wrong about what it was for.
⭐⭐⭐ THE DISCIPLE WHO ARGUED BACK, NAMED AND KEPT ARGUING. Where Jung’s individuation aims at a unified Self, Hillman’s Re-Visioning Psychology (1975) proposes a deliberately polytheistic psyche — many gods, many images, none of them subordinate to a single center — and treats staying with the image, rather than interpreting it, as the discipline itself. His last books, The Soul’s Code (1997) and A Terrible Love of War (2004), extend the same refusal of a single tidy wholeness to a person’s calling and to war itself. ⚠ Hillman is the clearest case in this wing of a disciple who took what he was given and then, in public and by name, argued Jung was wrong about what it was for.
rhymes with
sephirahhod
whyHod is splendor found in multiplicity and differentiated form — the sephirah closest to a psychology that refuses to let many images collapse into one Self.
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jung · hillman · archetypal psychology · disciple · polytheism · soul · dissent · image
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