James Hillman Quotes - Page 4

• Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.

  James Hillman

  Food, Psychology, Fundamentals

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• If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.

  James Hillman

  Inspirational, Change, Hurt

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• You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters the world called.

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  Character, Stories, World

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• The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the edge, the certainty of borders gives way. We are more subject to invasions, less able to mobilize defenses, less sure of who we really are, even as we may be perceived by others as a person of character. The dislocation of self from center to indefinite edge merges us more with the world, so that we can feel blest by everything.

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  Hero, Character, Blessing

  James Hillman (2012). “The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life”, p.37, Ballantine Books

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• We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, "What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?"

  James Hillman

  Children, Kids, Doctors

  "Sobre el alma, el carácter y la vocación: Una conversación con James Hillman". Entrevista con Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. Marzo de 1998.

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• I just read about John Le Carre, the great spy novelist. He had an absolutely miserable childhood. His mother deserted him when he was young. His father was a playboy and a drunk. He was shifted around to many different homes. He knew he was a writer when he was about nine, but he was dyslexic. So here was a person with an absolutely messed-up childhood and a symptom that prevented him from doing what he wanted to do most. Yet that very symptom was part of the calling. It forced him to go deeper.

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  Mother, Father, Home

  Fuente: scottlondon.com

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• Mediocre" tiende a significar "poco distinguido", mientras que los esnobs disfrutan de sus señas de estilo distintivas: cómo visten, cómo usan las palabras, dónde van y se reúnen y cotillean. ...Sean cuales sean las circunstancias en las que el genio te ha puesto, el hecho de la individualidad defiende el alma contra todas las demandas colectivas. Ningún alma es mediocre, sea cual sea su gusto personal por lo convencional, sea cual sea su historial personal de logros mediocres.

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  Mean, Class, Clothes

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• If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick exchange, the fastness of language and style, craftiness, the mixing of people and crossing of borders, imagination.

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  New York, People, Imagination

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• I'm not critical of the people who do psychotherapy. The therapists in the trenches have to face an awful lot of the social, political, and economic failures of capitalism. They have to take care of all the rejects and failures. They are sincere and work hard with very little credit, and the HMOs and the pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies are trying to wipe them out. So certainly I am not attacking them. I am attacking the theories of psychotherapy.

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  Hard Work, People, Political

  Fuente: scottlondon.com

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• Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

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  Childhood, Way, Determined

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• A mother should have some fantasy about her child's future. It will increase her interest in the child, for one thing. To turn the fantasy into a program to make the child fly an airplane across the country, for example, isn't the point. That's the fulfillment of the parent's own dreams. That's different. Having a fantasy - which the child will either seek to fulfill or rebel against furiously - at least gives a child some expectation to meet or reject.

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  Mother, Dream, Country

  Fuente: scottlondon.com

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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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  Ideas, Psychology, Emptiness

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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.

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  Perspective, Depth, Connections

  James Hillman (1975). “Loose Ends: Primary Papers in Archetypal Psychology”

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• Any symptom can force you to go deeper into some area.

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  Symptoms, Force, Deeper

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• Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.

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  Kids, Problem, Trouble

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• Demasiadas personas han analizado su pasado, su infancia, sus recuerdos, sus padres, y se han dado cuenta de que eso no sirve para nada, o de que no es suficiente.

  James Hillman

  Recuerdos, Pasado, Gente

  "Sobre el alma, el carácter y la vocación: Una conversación con James Hillman". Entrevista con Scott London, www.scottlondon.com.

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• Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak, early stage of development. He follows the Germanic view that ethics is more important than aesthetics, and he draws a stark contrast between the two. Freud may have written about literature a bit, but an aesthetic sensitivity is not part of his psychology.

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  Writing, Views, Two

  Fuente: scottlondon.com

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• How can Hitler, or some other murderer, appear in this world? I don't think any single theory can account for the phenomenon, and I think it's a mistake to try to reduce it to being brutalized by your parents or having grown up in some horrible situation - like Charles Manson.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Parent

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• Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they are degraded to a secondary position.

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  Art, Example, Way

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• Tenemos que volver a confiar en nuestra relación emocional con los niños, a ver la belleza de un niño y destacar a ese niño. Así es como funciona el sistema de mentores: estás atrapado en la fantasía de otra persona. Tu imaginación y la suya se unen.

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  Children, Emotional, Imagination

  Fuente: scottlondon.com

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• Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

  James Hillman

  Leisure, Slave, Economics

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• We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.

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  Needs, World

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• Suppose that throughout your childhood you were good with numbers. Other kids used to copy your homework. You figured store discounts faster than your parents. People came to you for help with such things. So you took accounting and eventually became a tax auditor for the IRS. What an embarrassing job, right? You feel you should be writing poetry or doing aviation mechanics or whatever. But then you realize that tax collecting can be a calling too.

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  Jobs, Writing, Kids

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• We must look back over our lives and look at some of the accidents and curiosities and oddities and troubles and sicknesses and begin to see more in those things than we saw before. It raises questions, so that when peculiar little accidents happen, you ask whether there is something else at work in your life.

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  Oddities, Raises Questions, Curiosity

  Fuente: scottlondon.com

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• I don't think anything changes until ideas change.

  James Hillman

  Thinking, Ideas, Things Change

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