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James Hillman — 11 recordings in the archive.
The book: Lament of the Dead: Psychology After Jung's Red Book by James Hillman and Sonu Shamdasani.
The title that I gave my thoughts this morning is young and the profoundly personal and so it seemed probably a good move in old age to make it profoundly personal not only about Jung's profoundly personal but maybe something from my own past but first I want to quote something from Auden Whiston ordinate poet we are lived by powers we pretend to understand and that's the whole thing and the work that Sonu has been doing the work that Jung did what that book is and what Jung spent his life trying to write and make clear is the pretending to understand trying to understand the powers and we are always up against the enormous limitations of the mind and of language in attempting to understand the powers that are living us and once we enter the realization that we are being lived we are not the sole agents the ego is a myth a figure I've never met one anywhere except the word somewhere or another that all of that is attempts to understand the powers and this changes the way the way one imagines what's going on in life and what happens in relationships what happens in therapy what happens everywhere else we are being lived by powers we pretend understand of course I never understood this for still don't fully but feel it and this is June 19 2010 in June 1961 I was then 35 and I was allowed to go out to Young's house and pay homage to Young's body he was in a separate room and some of us went out to Krishna from Zuri I remember carrying a lily huge with exquisite things that you see imaged in psychology and alchemy and being received beautifully by Frau Lilly young from her Oni frog Rhett Baumann and we were sat on the sofa sometimes different people coming and going and I looked at photographs from the old days and we were beautifully received in this time of mourning so it was probably the second or third day I don't know exactly and so I had my moment in the room with the body and paid homage had my lily and the message the meanings that I was given was get out or get on or gets over something like that and do my work now after that interesting that Lily because I…