The soul's code : in search of character and calling / James Hillman.
By: Hillman, James.
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BookPublisher: New York : Bantam Books, 1997Description: 334 p. ; 20 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 055350634X .Subject(s): Individuality
| Individuality in children | Fate and fatalism | Gifted personsDDC classification: 150 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Plato and the Greeks called it 'daimon', the Romans 'genius', the Christians 'Guardian Angel' - and today we use terms such as 'heart', 'spirit' and 'soul'. For James Hillman it is the central and guiding force of his utterly unique and compelling 'acorn theory' which proposes that each life is formed by a particular image, an image that is the essence of that life and calls it to a destiny, just as the mighty oak's destiny is written in the tiny acorn.
Highly accessible and imaginative, The Soul's Code offers a liberating vision of childhood troubles and an exciting approach to themes such as freedom, and, most of all, calling - that invisible mystery at the centre of every life that voices the fundamental question, 'What is in my heart that I must do, be and have? And why?'
Bibliography: (pages 307-320) and index.
In a nutshell: the acorn theory and the redemption of psychology -- Growing down -- The parental fallacy -- Back to the invisibles -- "Eise is percipi": to be is to be perceived -- Neither nature nor nuture - something else -- Penny dreadfuls and pure fantasy -- Disguise -- Fate -- The bad seed -- Mediocrity.
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)