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The Kabbalistic Act
The Depth Of The Soul: James Hillman's Vision Of Psychology - Sanford L. Drob
Date: 11/18/2014 7:13:40 AM ( 10 y ) ... viewed 1773 times "For the past quarter century James Hillman has been creating a new vision of psychology, one in which psychology becomes a 'supreme discipline' concerned not only with the psyche of humanity but the 'soul' which is at the heart of the world.":
http://www.newkabbalah.com/hil2.html
I appreciate "At times it seems that for Hillman it is the disintegration of theory and dogma which is creative and interesting and not the new theories that arise in the old theories' place."
My affinity with this here is nourishing to my soul and validating for my own path I see depicted in the Human Design System. By the way - I am giving individuals complimentary introductions to their Human Deisgn. It can be considered as a $120.00 value! In any case it is a real gift!
More from this NewKabbalah site -
"The soul", according to Hillman, is the proper subject matter of psychology. Bettleheim (1984) has pointed out in his brief but wonderful volume Freud and Man's Soul, Freud himself, actually used the German term for soul, "Seele", when speaking of what is translated into English as the "psychic apparatus" and by this he made reference to the person's most inner, vital sense of "meaning".
I am so grateful I just found this site in my search: "revisioning psychology"! And I am all grateful I read about this on page 11 of "The Purpose of Your Life"!
Continuing:
"For Hillman, the soul generally lays hidden behind our routines, dogmas and fixed beliefs. Soul, according to Hillman is most apt to emerge in those chaotic, 'pathological', moments when we experience the disintegration of our beliefs, values, and security. For it is in such moments that that our imagery, emotions, desires and values are heightened and we have the fullest awareness of the psyche in its essential form. ..."
There you have it! You have awareness of your psyche and that awareness increases in the moments when (what I have referred to as) your mirror cracks or possibly shatters! I have used the image of a mirror as I was originally inspired by it from the "rock opera": Tommy and which I subsequently had used in my own conscious choice to litterally shatter the matrix of false identification (in August of 1970) that I had accumultaed during the first nineteen years of my life.
Cont. "... Here, Hillman provides us with a psychological application of the Kabbalistic act of Birur, the extrication of the inner divine self, the spark of divine light that lays hidden within the human personality. For Hillman, the very point of deconstructing our fixed ideas in psychology and elsewhere is to provide us with the conditions for the revelation of psyche itself."
This is the first time I am seeing this presentation of personal transformation and I am gald!
I'm returning to my reading here at
http://www.newkabbalah.com/hil2.html
... and I have to "note" this as well:
"For Hillman, the very process of interpretation is suspect, precisely because in bringing an image or fantasy under the rubric of an interpretation or a concept we have tamed it, made it familiar, and essentially robbed it of its potential to frighten, enthrall, puzzle, or otherwise work its way into and transform our psyche."
Therefore a "shock conflict" (AKA "DHS") could be allowed to "work its way into and transform our psyche". This is the very heart of what motivated me to start this "Psyche & Health" blog! What a find!
".. Hillman the psychologist and psychotherapist comes to regard psychopathology as our most valuable ally, our most trusted friend. Hillman's views on pathology are central to his psychology, and these views indeed take center stage in Revisioning Psychology, his most important work. Central to his perspective is the idea that, particularly in our own era, psychopathology is the primary vehicle through which soulfulness is achieved. In the same way that Freud understood the neurotic symptom as one path to the understanding of the unconscious, Hillman sees psychopathology as the "royal road" to the deepening of soul. "
My Goodness! So the "door to the pathological" apparently needs to have it's hinges greased rather than attempting to nail it shut! What a reversal on the impression I got from quoting professor K at Rudolf Steiner College: "Dialogue is the new community. Without dialogue the door to the pathological is left open."
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