The Thought of the Heart and the Soul of the World (Paperback)

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Two groundbreaking essays launch Archetypal Psychology in a new direction: toward the world. Hillman calls this "a depth psychology of extraversion"—a therapy beyond the consulting room and private relationships, opening the heart-felt conncection to the world.

To restore the heart's courage and its imaginative power, the soul of the world needs the same attention that we have been giving to the soul of persons. There is a soul quality to all things in the environment, whether "natural" or "manmade." These essays show how to regain, and live of, heart and soul.

About the Author

The pioneering imaginative psychology of James Hillman that soon will span five decades has entered cultural history, affecting lives and minds in a wide range of fields. For the creativity of his thinking, the originator of Archetypal Psychology and author of A Terrible Love of War, The Soul's Code, and The Force of Character has received many honors, including the Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic. He has held distinguished lectureships at the Universities of Yale, Princeton, and Syracuse, and his books have been translated into some twenty languages. Of his many books, Spring Publications has published Anima, Loose Ends, Archetypal Psychology, Pan and the Nightmare, Suicide and the Soul, Insearch, Oedipus Variations (with Karl Kerényi), The Thought of the Heart and the Soul of the World, Inter Views, and Lectures on Jung's Typology (with Marie-Louise von Franz). He lives in Connecticut

Product Details

• Paperback: 130 pages
• Publisher: Spring Publications (June 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0882143530
• ISBN-13: 978-0882143538
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #179,086 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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31 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a beautiful book full of heart, August 14, 2001

By	Craig Chalquist, PhD, author of TERRAPSYCHOLO... (Bay Area, CA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

In this, one of Hillman's best books, he rewrites two talks as essays, both of which revisualize the literal blood pump in the chest as the metaphorical place where imagination begins and image connects consciousness and world.

To hear that world and the soul which animates it (for soul isn't just locked up in the head or body), we must dwell on its specifics. Here are some illustrative quotations:

My practice tells me I can no longer distinguish clearly between neurosis of self and neurosis of world, psychopathology of self and psychopathology of world. Moreover, it tells me that to place neurosis and psychopathology solely in personal reality is a delusional repression of what is actually, realistically, being experienced.

The world, because of its breakdown, is entering a new moment of consciousness: by drawing attention to itself by means of its symptoms, it is becoming aware of itself as a psychic reality.

Let us imagine the anima mundi [world soul] neither above the world encircling it as a divine and remote emanation of spirit, a world of powers, archetypes, and principles transcendent to things, nor within the material world as its unifying panpsychic life-principle. Rather let us imagine the anima mundi as that particular soul-spark, that seminal image, which offers itself through each thing in its visible form.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Thought of the Heart and the Soul of the World, June 3, 2009

By	S. Hawley - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The Thought of the Heart and the Soul of the World This is a very good book. It is a little difficult and slow to read. That helps to allow more time to assimilate what Mr. Hillman is writing. This was a required book for class but I am glad to have read it. It is very thought provoking. I agree with author's perspective.