THE POLYTHEISTIC PSYCHE: RE-IMAGINING SOUL AND SELF IN JAME'S HILLMAN'S ARCHETYPAL PSYCHOLOGY

SWorldJournal ◽

10.30888/2410-6615.2020-09-02-001 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 124-128

Author(s):

Кинг Джон

Keyword(s):

Depth Psychology ◽

Archetypal Psychology ◽

James Hillman ◽

American Psychologist

This article examines the notion of psychological polytheism in the context of Jungian depth psychology. The author focuses on the concept of the “polytheistic psyche” which American psychologist and philosopher James Hillman, founder of the post-Jungian

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Virtual Psyche in Play and Tending the Collective Unconscious

Exploring the Collective Unconscious in the Age of Digital Media - Advances in Psychology, Mental Health, and Behavioral Studies ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-9891-8.ch006 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 156-179

Author(s):

Susan Marie Savett

Keyword(s):

Video Game ◽

Game Design ◽

Meaning Making ◽

Archetypal Psychology ◽

Collective Unconscious ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Pivotal Point ◽

James Hillman ◽

Video Game Design ◽

Insight Into

Knowingly or unknowingly, games manifest archetypal forces from the unconscious. Through play and fantasy, unconscious content of the psyche is able to express its deep longings. Hypnogogic landscapes of videogames provide immersive realms in which players enact psychological dramas. Game designers reside on a unique axis from which their work with the imaginary realm can create profound psychic containers. At this pivotal point in our culture, digital games hold tremendous influence over the creation of new myths, lore, and possibilities. This chapter investigates archetypal psychology concepts of Carl Jung and James Hillman for insight into 21st century realm of virtual play and its relationship to the collective unconscious. It focuses on how games provide a means for bringing individual and cultural unconscious impulses into consciousness through personification, pathologizing and meaning making within virtual play. It aims to introduce an alternative lens to bridge psychological dynamics with the video game design.

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Rhetoric, Memory, and Power: Depth Psychology and Postmodern Geography

Environment and Planning D Society and Space ◽

10.1068/d100005 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 5-22 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

P Bishop

Keyword(s):

Depth Psychology ◽

Archetypal Psychology ◽

History And Memory ◽

Definition Of ◽

The Relationship

The attitude towards rhetoric, metaphor, and imagery is identified in this paper as being central both to the definition of postmodernism and to any postmodern scholarship. It is also claimed that questions about the relationship between archetypal psychology and geography mirrors the wider postmodern phenomenon of comparative knowledges. By focusing on radical criticism of contemporary heritage movements it is shown how archetypal psychology can help to deepen metaphorical reflection on such crucial issues as fantasy, theory, history, and memory. In particular, it is insisted that such reflections should themselves avoid philosophical abstraction and stay as close as possible to the logic of imaginative discourse.

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Ideas and sophisms. The process of education in the perspectives of polytheistic psychology

Pedagogika. Studia i Rozprawy ◽

10.16926/p.2019.28.01 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 28 ◽

pp. 11-25

Author(s):

Tomasz Olchanowski

Keyword(s):

Archetypal Psychology ◽

Aesthetic Education ◽

Ecological Education ◽

Contemporary Culture ◽

James Hillman ◽

The Creation

The author of the article looks at the processes occurring in contemporary culture through the prism of archetypal psychology of James Hillman. This “Jungian heretic” had a significant impact on many pedagogical ideas (aesthetic education, ecological education). Hillman’s polytheistic perspectives are processes that lead to the creation of the soul (“creation of the soul”) and awakening.

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Oxford Seminar in Archetypal Psychology with James Hillman and Patricia Berry

Holistic Medicine ◽

10.3109/13561828609038133 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 161-162

Author(s):

Elizabeth McCormick

Keyword(s):

Archetypal Psychology ◽

James Hillman

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Towards an imaginal dialogue: archetypal symbols between Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Islam

Approaching Religion ◽

10.30664/ar.67594 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 81-95 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ali Qadir ◽

Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir

Keyword(s):

Archetypal Psychology ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Eastern Orthodox ◽

Collective Unconscious ◽

Orthodox Christianity ◽

Religious Traditions ◽

James Hillman ◽

Mundus Imaginalis ◽

Imaginal Dialogue ◽

Key Features

This paper explores the potential for a dialogue between religious traditions based on art, in order to complement the dominant channels that rely on conceptual meanings. Building on a theoretical framework of post-Jungian archetypal psychology – as developed by James Hillman and Henry Corbin – we propose that the utility of such a dialogue inheres in the notion of an imaginal realm, or mundus imaginalis. In the first part of the paper we highlight three key features of this notion: the distinction between the imaginal and the imaginary; the significance of a culturally differentiated collective unconscious; and a reflection of the imaginal in practice rather than conceptually. We emphasize the materiality of sacred symbols that emerge from the imaginal realm. In the second part, we illustrate the importance of two archetypal symbols: the fish and the chalice. The significance of these symbols in history and in the practices of communities of believers is discussed. Thirdly, we discuss specific features of the dialogue emerging from these ubiquitous archetypal symbols.

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When a name becomes an image: the relationship of James Hillman with this strange metaphor called ‘Brazil’

International Journal of Jungian Studies ◽

10.1080/19409052.2013.826592 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 254-261

Author(s):

Marcus Quintaes

Keyword(s):

Archetypal Psychology ◽

James Hillman ◽

Intellectual Journey ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

This article attempts to recover the intellectual trajectory of James Hillman. It analyzes the diverse steps of his intellectual journey and emphasizes the extremely mercurial character that characterizes his writing. Starting with the furious potential of his ideas and arguments, Hillman attempts to articulate a thought that is free, multiple, slippery and plural, one that resists being captured in any attempt to unify or define a prevalent direction. It is these characteristics that approximate Hillman's ideas and archetypal psychology with Brazil and its particular way of ‘soul making’.

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