Polytheistic Psychology, Part 2
Found another quote from Hillman over here. This person is trying to trash Hillman, but not doing too good a job.
- “By providing a divine background of personages and powers for each complex, it [a polytheistic psychology] would aim less at gathering them into a unity and more at integrating each fragment according to its own principle, giving each God [and Goddess] its due over that proportion of consciousness, that symptom, complex, fantasy which calls for an archetypal background. It would accept the multiplicity of voices…without insisting upon unifying them into one figure, and accept too the dissociation process into diversity as equal in value to the coagulation process into unity. The pagan Gods and Goddesses would be restored to the psychological domain” (James Hillman. “Psychology: Monotheistic or Polytheistic?” p.197).
Man, the author of this article really does a horrible job of refuting Hillman’s claims. He’s basically just showing how he’s missing not only the point of Hillman’s work, but of Jung’s which it’s based on.
Anyway, here’s a couple more articles about Psychological Polytheism. It seems like its not a very popular outlook in modern psychology though. Which is funny, considering its so huge in other circles of occult & religious thought. I think that’s what’s so good about Jung, is that he was very grounded in all that kinda stuff.
- Polytheistic Psychology: Part 1
- The Polytheistic Mind
- French Dissociation Psychology
- Paranormal Investigators of the World Unite!
- The Hero With A Thousand Faces
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