This glossary is not arranged alphabetically. It unfolds conceptually. The sequence begins with soul, the perspective from which Hillman believes psychology should proceed. Part I of II
James Hillman’s archetypal psychology is easier to misunderstand than to apply. Its vocabulary – gods, soul, images, underworld, personification and psychological polytheism, can create the impression that the practitioner’s task is to identify mythological figures concealed inside dreams and symptoms.
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.
