American - Psychologist | April 12, 1926 - October 27, 2011
It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.
James Hillman
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I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.
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The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?
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I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.
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The elder who is eliminating what time has done to the face, what life has done to the face, is making a statement for others to see: This is the way to be a good old person - it is to defeat this body that is doing things to you. Because you haven't changed. Your body's changing.
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I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.
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You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy.
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We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.
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It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation.
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All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?
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I don't have answers. I have questions.
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The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.
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