Our knowledge of who we are is mediated by what we doctors of the mind call our self-schemata… cognitive generalisations derived from experience that organise and guide the processing of self-related information, and proposed that these structures may develop in particular domains of a person’s life.
James Hillman’s archetypal psychology presents the psyche as fundamentally plural, or or of multiple minds. Human beings do not possess only one psychological voice, value system or centre of intelligence.
Objectivity, in this landscape, usually means not a “view from nowhere,” but “as independent of any one person’s quirks as we can practically make it.”
Listening to your body means paying attention to the signals your whole organism is sending, taking them seriously, and responding in a way that keeps you healthy and steady over time
