Healing fiction / James Hillman.
By: Hillman, James.
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BookPublisher: Dallas : [United States] : Spring Publications, Distributed by Continuum Pub. Group, 1983Description: 145 p. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0882143638.Subject(s): Psychoanalysis and literature
DDC classification: 150.195 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 150.195 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00075989 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book is Hillman's main analysis of analysis. He asks the basic question, "What does the soul want?" With insight and humor he answers, "It wants fictions that heal."
Originally published: Barrytown, N.Y. : Station Hill Press, 1983.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-145).
The fiction of case history - a round with Freud -- The pandaemonium of images - Jung's contribution to know thyself -- What does the soul want - Adler's imagination of inferiority.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
James Hillman was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey on April 12, 1926. He attended the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University for two years before joining the Navy's Hospital Corps in 1944. He studied English literature in Paris at the Sorbonne and graduated with a degree in mental and moral science from Trinity College in Dublin. In 1953, he moved to Zurich and enrolled at the C. G. Jung Institute. In 1959, he became the director of studies at the institute and stayed in that position for the next 10 years. He wrote over 20 books including Suicide and the Soul, Re-Visioning Psychology, and The Soul's Code. He died due to complications of bone cancer on October 27, 2011 at the age of 85.(Bowker Author Biography)