Fiction. Hillman J

In his new book, Hillman puts a seemingly destructive question for modern psychotherapy: What does the soul want? And he answers: The soul longs for fiction that can heal. Turning to the works of the three great initiators of the deep psychology - Freud, Jung and Adler - the author carefully explores such concepts as “history of the disease”, “active imagination” and “sense of inferiority”. The analysis of specific examples of the clinical material of active imagination allows Hillman to establish that the soul is healed, telling itself a “more wonderful story”. Fiction in this case acts as a “solvent” of the previous system of beliefs that hold the soul locked up in a painful painful hopelessness.
James Hillman - a student and follower of Karl Gustav Jung. And he is a Jungian dissident, a nonsense of many provisions of analytical psychology, a culturologist and critic, a brilliant lecturer, one of the founders of archetypal psychology. Author of 25 books, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize