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From Analytical Psychology to Archetypal Psychology

James Hillman’s archetypal psychology arose from Carl Gustav Jung’s analytical psychology, but it should not be understood merely as a later version of Jungian theory. Hillman retained some of Jung’s most radical propositions while questioning the conceptual structure Jung had built around them.

Invisible Friend..?

Childhood Imaginary Friends as Externalised Projections

There is the suggestion that the phenomena of Imaginary Friends, seen in many children around the globe, very often fitting into that child’s acceptable world-view, but often found concerning, by their parents, could be externalised projections from their own mind. Some kind of imaginative overlay, but with the ability to offer additional insight to the child, by adding a second, or third view to any situation.