James Hillman obituary

American psychologist who concluded that the processing is necessary to change the world instead of focusing on the lives of inmates

James Hillman, who died at 85 of complications from cancer, was hailed as the most important American psychologist William James since. It was dedicated subversive - spiritual and original - and an heir to the Jungian tradition, which re-imagined with a constant brightness. Very critical of the U.S. commitment to the pursuit of happiness, Hillman focuses on human experiences darkest and most difficult - illness, depression, failure and suicide - not only as abnormal conditions should be avoided or Healing

known writers and philosophers of the Italian Renaissance and ancient Greece, as well as a romantic tradition that includes Keats, Goethe, Schelling, and Dilthey. You do not want to create his own school, proposed a psychology "archetype" or "imaginary" that would restore the psyche or soul to a discipline that he believes he has been diminished by the scientific and medical models. Influenced by Henry Corbin and Islamic Sufi French, the poetics of Gaston Bachelard and the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty argued that reality is a construct of the imagination - the stuff of myths, dreams, fantasies and images. There was, however, very few of his thought that he divorced the world of money, war and politics. Incessant criticism culture embraced everything from masturbation to plastic surgery, and the design of roofs to U.S. foreign policy.

The "image" as an expression of imagination, poetry, dreams, or visual art, was of paramount importance to him - as an antidote to the literalness that dominates everyday discourse. Hillman warned against the reductionist tendencies of interpretation and theoretical speculation. It would be in favor of "stick to the image", which is often confusing and paradoxical speech, he said, with more truth than verbal discourse. Film is an ideal vehicle for their ideas. It was the largest contributor The film in my heart has its reasons (Channel 4, 1993), Kind of Blue (Channel 4, 1994) and the five-part series The architecture of the imagination (BBC2, 1994).

Hillman was based on the pre-Christian modes of thought - the polytheistic point of view that reflects the many possibilities of the human psyche, conceived as gods and goddesses, myths and metaphors that spoke by the polymorphic nature instincts shaped our thoughts and actions that the world really good and the evil power of the opposition of the monotheistic religions of the book.

Hillman grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersey, with parents in the hotel business - which is owned in part by the George V in Paris. At a gas station that sold and lived with the illusion, spoke about learning things from the beginning are not always what they seem. During World War II he served in the U.S. Naval Hospital Corps, care of the blind -. An experience that exposes you to the inner life of blind patients "rich and convincing institutional disadvantages of medicine

After studying at the Sorbonne and at Trinity College Dublin, traveled to Africa and spent a year in Kashmir, where he discovered the writings of Jung. He returned to Europe to work on his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich and enrolled in a diploma course at the Jung Institute in 1950. Shortly after qualifying, he became Director of Studies, where he remained until 1978.

Meanwhile, he has published pioneering work as Re-Vision of Psychology (1975), based in the prestigious Terry has lectured at Yale University in 1972. Pulitzer-nominated book was followed by sleep and the Underworld (1979) and The Myth of Analysis (1983). These studies have established central Hillman, with great erudition, and a knack for subversion, "see" through the idea and practice of psychology, how to extract the meaning of dreams and fictions that guides practice of psychoanalysis .

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• Hillman left to become dean of a graduate of the University of Dallas, where he remained until 1984, who also created the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, which promoted the appreciation radical of our cities and our lives within them. He also published in the spring of magazines and was editor of publications in the spring.

practiced as an analyst for 40 years, has become very critical of the therapy. He argued that the disease of humanity was in the world rather than each individual. Treatment should in his opinion, the policy change, cities, buildings, schools, and our relationship with the natural environment rather than focusing solely on the lives of prisoners.

Far from being favorable to their sugar-coated promises of fulfillment and satisfaction, was appointed by the New Age movement, always eager to promote a message of gurus charge. He came dangerously close to being identified with him when he was for several years, participating in the movement of men, with the poet Robert Bly and Michael Meade social activist.

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