I'm not critical of the people who do psychotherapy. The therapists in the trenches have to face an awful lot of the social, political, and economic failures of capitalism. They have to take care of all the rejects and failures.… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
A mother should have some fantasy about her child's future. It will increase her interest in the child, for one thing. To turn the fantasy into a program to make the child fly an airplane across the country, for example,… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“Each life is formed by its unique image, an image that is the essence of that life and calls it to a destiny. As… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
It's a terrible cruelty of predatory capitalism: both parents now have to work. A family has to have two incomes in order to buy… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
You know, people come to therapy really for a blessing. Not so much to fix what's broken, but to get what's broken blessed. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“The first way has been excellently presented by David Holt in his lecture on “Jung and Marx.” [1] There Holt shows that Jung imagined his… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death.… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I'm in favor of destruction, aggression, hating things. Not bearing things anymore. We think the breakdown comes because our life is in bad shape.… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's not a… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
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