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Richard Tarnas — 2 recordings in the archive.
The book: Re-Visioning Psychology by James Hillman.
To delve into Hillman's writing which is really his essence as a I mean he was a very good speaker but as a writer he just completely carries the essence of his gift to us he's got a capacity I think he's really the best stylist as a writer that psychology has had certainly well certainly since William James and with perhaps in some respects even more so in fact Robert Bly who can talked about him in relationship to William James said that that he reads a Hillman every day or this is years ago that he always read something of Hillman every day because there is a you kind of get these sparks of insight of that help one have one's own thoughts often in contrast to Hillman's but because of the way he the intelligence and and wit and often provocateur quality of his style and mood he's extremely effective in stimulating the the reader to have a kind of co-creative experience reading his work as he says I he his form of psychology is a kind of it's a poetic it's in the poetic genre or tradition it's calling upon the poetic imagination the poetic intelligence and style of discourse and he's he reminds us that Freud did not win the Nobel Prize for medicine he won the Goethe Prize for Literature which says a lot so we spoke about Hillman's allegiance on the one hand to the fallen world to the world of human limitation and finitude and mortality and suffering and symptoms and psychopathology and messy emotions and the multiplicity of the into of the interior psyche but it's so it's a world that's fallen in the sense that he's not so interested in the ideal mystical spiritual world but he does contrast the world of the literal ordinary reality that most of us live in at least live in the he contrasts the ordinary reality of mundane literal life with the imaginal realm with the realm of the psyche as fantasy as dreams as the archetypal dimension and so he's got this allegiance to soul on the one hand and this allegiance to the world that the soul inhabits or that in a sense soul is inhabited by world he's he always is reversing and showing how the soul is not in us we are in Soul and he moves more and more…