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From my perspective as a depth psychologist, I see that those who have a connection with story are in better shape and have better prognosis than those to whom story must be introduced.
James Hillman
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James Hillman
Age: 85 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 12
Died: 2011
Died: October 27
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Psychologist
Atlantic City
New Jersey
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I don't think anything changes until ideas change.
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I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.
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The new age self-help phenomenon is pretty mushy, but it's also very American. Our history is filled with traveling preachers and quack medicine and searches for the soul. I don't see this as a new thing. I think the new age is part of a phenomenon that's been there all along.
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I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.
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Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.
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People used to trust their doctor. They went to an expert. Now people have new ideas and are thinking for themselves. That's a very important change in our collective psychology.
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Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
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Yes, we worship the idea of the self-made man - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea.
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Beauty is something everybody longs for, needs, and tries to obtain in some way - whether through nature, or a man or a woman, or music, or whatever. The soul yearns for it. Psychology seems to have forgotten that.
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Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time no one has any leisure.
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Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.
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The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
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Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.
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Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us.
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The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?
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We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.
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To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.
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I tend to think that you fulfill your own destiny, whether you realize it or not.
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