James Hillman Libri

«Per decifrare il codice dell'anima e capire il carattere, la vocazione, il destino, nel suo best seller Hillman si ispira al mito platonico di Er: l'anima di ciascuno di noi sceglie un "compagno segreto" (daimon lo chiamavano i greci, genius i latini, angelo custode i cristiani). Sarà lui a guidarci nel cammino terreno. Eminenti modelli sfilano sotto l'occhio stregonesco di Hillman ... Il suo set è affollatissimo. Judy Garland, Joséphine Baker, Woody Allen, Quentin Tarantino, Hannah Arendt, Manuel Manolete, Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, Truman Capote, Gandhi, Yehudi Menuhin, Elias Canetti e tanti altri, con le loro storie d'infanzia e maturità abilmente sezionate dal bisturi analitico, testimoniano apoteosi e disastri. Ma nell'età della psicopatia il ruolo del protagonista spetta a Hitler: il suo demone gli ha cucito addosso la divisa di un prototipo, il criminale dei tempi moderni. Forse di tutti i tempi». Enzo Golino

Non sempre è giusto cedere al fascinoso luogo comune secondo il quale chi muore giovane è caro agli dei, perché così come il carattere guida l'invecchiamento, l'invecchiamento guida il carattere. La senilità, quindi, non è un caso, né una dannazione, né l'abominio di una medicina moderna devota alla longevità, ma la condizione naturale e necessaria affinché si verifichino l'intensificazione e la messa a punto del nostro carattere, ossia della forma del nostro durare. Ma anche se il carattere sopravvive per immagini, invecchiare è una forma d'arte che ogni essere umano deve affrontare perché la vecchiaia si configuri come una struttura estetica che permetta di svolgere il ruolo archetipico di avo cui ogni anziano è chiamato

With this book James Hillman initiated the "soul movement" in psychotherapy more than fifty years ago. Soul and suicide are dominant issues of this new millennium; soul because it cannot be reduced to genes and chromosomes; suicide because it raises fundamental religious, political, and legal conflicts. As Hillman writes in the Postscript to the second edition: "The individual consists of more than his or her personal individuality. Something besides 'myself' inhabits the soul, takes part in its life and has a say in its death...We need a...definition of self as the interiorization of community. Suicide, literally 'self-killing, ' now would mean both a killing of community and involvement of community in the killing."Hillman's book tries to carry Jung's ideas of a soul-informed psychology into the most wrenching agony of therapeutic practice: the suicide of the patient. It goes to the heart of therapy. Since we are each in a silent therapy with ourselves, the issue of suicide reaches into the heart of each of us. Suicide and the Soul resurrects "soul" from its reliquary in spiritual churchiness and instills the idea with the passion-laden daily life of soul food, soul music, soul brother, soul sister, and soul death.This new edition is introduced by the eminent psychiatrist and pioneering social critic Thomas Szasz

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.

This groundbreaking classic explores the necessity of connections between our life and soul and developing the main lines of the soul-making process.

Extraordinary, yet practical accounts of active imagination, writing, daily work, and symptoms in their relation with loving. The only biography of Hillman, the book also radically deconstructs the interview form itself.

In his powerful bestseller The Soul's Code, James Hillman brilliantly illuminated the central importance of character to our spiritual and emotional lives. Now, in this magnificent new book, Hillman completes his exploration of character with a profound and revolutionary reflection on life's second half."Character requires the additional years," declares Hillman. "The last years confirm and fulfill character." Far from blunting or dulling the self, the accumulation of experience concentrates the essence of our being, heightening our individual mystery and unique awareness of life. Drawing on his grounding in Jungian psychology, Hillman explains here the archetypes and myths that govern the self's realignment in our final years.The Force of Character follows an enriching journey through the three stages of aging--lasting, the deepening that comes with longevity; leaving, the preparation for departure; and left, the special legacy we each bestow on our survivors.  Along the way the book explores the meanings and often hidden virtues of characteristic physical and emotional changes, such as loss of memory, alterations in sleep patterns, and the mysterious upsurge in erotic imagination.Steeped in the wisdom of a lifetime, radiant with Hillman's reading in philosophy, poetry, and sacred texts, charged with a piercing clarity, The Force of Character is a book that will change--and affirm--the lives of all who read it.

Originally written for the Italian Enciclopedia del Novecento, this indispensable book is a concise, instructive introduction to polytheism, Greek mythology, the soul-spirit distinction, anima mundi, psychopathology, soul-making, imagination, therapeutic practice, and the writings of C.?G. Jung, Henry Corbin, and Adolf Portmann in the formulation of the field of Archetypal Psychology. This new edition includes three additional texts, which Hillman long felt belong into this introductory account of Archetypal Psychology: “Why ‘Archetypal Psychology’?”; “Psychology: Monotheistic or Polytheistic?”; and “Psychology: Monotheistic or Polytheistic? – Twenty Years Later.”

A Jungian analyst explores the fundamental question of human existence and identity, discussing such topics as fate, character, motivation, intuition, vision, impulse, and calling