James Hillman

James Hillman (born April 12, 1926 in Atlantic City , New Jersey , † October 27, 2011 in Thompson , Connecticut ) was an American psychologist and author of numerous books on topics of depth psychology .

Life

Hillman came to Frankfurt am Main in 1946 as a member of the United States Army , where he was employed as a news editor in the service of the US occupation forces . He then studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and at Trinity College Dublin until he moved to India for a year .

From 1953 he continued his studies at the University of Zurich , where he received his doctorate in 1959 . At the same time he completed his psychoanalytic training at the CG Jung Institute, where he then worked as the first director of studies until 1969. From 1966 he was also a speaker at the annual Eranos conference. In 1970 he became editor of Spring Publications , a series of publications on analytical psychology , and the journal Spring .

In 1978 Hillman moved back to the USA: in 1980 he founded the Dallas Institute for Humanities and Culture in Dallas . He lived in Connecticut as a freelance writer.

Works (selection)

Single issues

• Suicide and the Soul , 1964
  • Suicide and mental transformation. An argument . Rascher, Zurich 1966; 4. A. Daimon, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-85630-596-3
• Insearch: Psychology and Religion , 1967; 2nd rev. ed. 1995
  • The encounter with oneself. Psychology and religion . Klett (experiments 15), Stuttgart 1969
    • New edition as: The Search Inside . Daimon, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-85630-008-2
• Pan and the Nightmare , 1972; new rev. ed. 2000
  • Pan and the natural fear. About the need for nightmares for the soul . Schweizer Spiegel, Zurich 1981; 2. A. IKM, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-7270-1209-9
• Loose Ends: Primary Papers in Archetypal Psychology , 1975
• Re-Visioning Psychology , 1975
• The Dream and the Underworld , 1979
  • In the beginning there was the picture. Our dreams - the bridge of the soul to the myths . Kösel, Munich 1983
• The Myth of Analysis: Three Essays in Archetypal Psychology , 1983
• Inter Views (with Laura Pozzo), 1983
• Healing Fiction , 1983
  • Invent the cure. A psychotherapeutic poetics . IKM, Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-7270-1218-8
• Anima: An Anatomy of a Personified Notion , 1985
• A Blue Fire: Selected Writings of James Hillman , ed. v. Thomas Moore, 1989
• The Thought of the Heart and the Soul of the World , 1992
• We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy - And the World's Getting Worse , 1993
  • A hundred years of psychotherapy - and the world is getting worse and worse (with Michael Ventura). Walter, Olten 1993
• Kinds of Power: A Guide to its Intelligent Uses , 1995
• The Soul's Code: On Character and Calling , 1997
  • Character and purpose. A journey of discovery to the individual meaning of life . Goldmann, Munich 1998
• The Force of Character and the Lasting Life , 1999
  • The meaning of long life. We become what we are . Kösel, Munich 2000
• A Terrible Love of War , 2004
  • The terrifying love of war . Kösel, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-466-34484-0

Work edition

• Archetypal Psychology . Uniform Edition, Volume 1. Spring Publications, 2004
• City and Soul . Uniform Edition, Volume 2. Spring Publications, 2006
• Senex and Puer . Uniform Edition, Volume 3. Spring Publications, 2006

literature

• Robert H. Davis: Jung, Freud and Hillman: Three depth psychologies in context . Praeger, Westport (Conn.) 2003, ISBN 0-275-97451-0
• Eolene M. Boyd-MacMillan: Transformation: James Loder, mystical spirituality, and James Hillman . Lang (Religions and discourse 31), Bern / New York 2006, ISBN 3-03910-565-5
• Silvia Ronchey : James Hillman, L'anima del mondo: conversazione con Silvia Ronchey . Milano 2001.

Web links

• Edition of the writings of James Hillman (Engl.)
• Literature by and about James Hillman in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ James Hillman, Therapist in Men's Movement, Dies at 85 . Article of the New York Times . Retrieved October 28, 2011. (English)