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James Hillman (April 12, 1926 – October 27, 2011) was an American psychologist. He studied at, and then guided studies for, the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. He founded a movement toward archetypal psychology and retired into private practice, writing and traveling to lecture, until his death at his home in Connecticut.

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The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

Implication, Muscles, Negative, People, Society, Talking

Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.

Attention, Firsts, Perhaps, Psychological, Virtue

It's very hard in our adversarial society to find a third view. Take journalism, where everything is always presented as one person against another: "Now we're going to hear the opposing view. " There is never a third view.

Everything, Journalism, Presented, Society, Thirds, Views

We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.

Needs, Oppressive, Work, World

Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.

Higher, Jobs, Men, Office, Power

Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There is a strategy, an overall concept, and there are tactics along the way…Tradition would say I was a 'child of Mars. '

Book, Campaign, Child, Children, Concept, Military

I don't think anything changes until ideas change.

Change, Changes, Ideas, Things Change, Think, Thinking

My war - and I have yet to win a decisive battle - is with the modes of thought that and conditioned feelings that prevail in psychology and therefore also in the way we think and feel about our being. Of these conditions none are more tyrannical than the convictions that clamp the mind and heart into positivistic science (geneticism and computerism), economics (bottom-line capitalism), and single-minded faith (fundamentalism).

Conditioned, Heart, Modes, Thinking, War, Way

We need to get back to trusting our emotional rapport with children, to seeing a child's beauty and singling that child out. That's how the mentor system works - you're caught up in the fantasy of another person. Your imagination and their come together.

Children, Emotional, Imagination, Seeing, Together, Works

In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's not a vocation.

Calling, Friendship, Huge, Past, Thing, Thinking

You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.

Bliss, Follow, Follow Your Bliss, Know, Knows

Beauty is something everybody longs for, needs, and tries to obtain in some way - whether through nature, or a man or a woman, or music, or whatever. The soul yearns for it. Psychology seems to have forgotten that.

Man, Men, Music, Psychology, Soul

One strand of psychotherapy is certainly to help relieve suffering, which is a genuine medical concern. If someone is bleeding, you want to stop the bleeding. Another medical aspect is the treatment of chronic complaints that are disabling in some way. And many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic. So there is a reasonable, sensible, medical side to psychotherapy.

Reasonable, Relieve, Sides, Suffering, Want

Psychotherapy makes every problem a subjective, inner problem. And that's not where the problems come from. They come from the environment, the cities, the economy, the racism. They come from architecture, school systems, capitalism, exploitation. They come from many places that psychotherapy does not address. Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong.

Address, Cities, Come, Racism, School

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.

Familiarity, Habit, Hanging, Keep, Losing, Safe

It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation

Generation, Generations, Important, Look, Men

Vessels expose the invisible Zeitgeist, the visible formed by the invisible.

Formed, Invisible, Visible, Zeitgeist

The psyche is highly flammable material. So we are always wrapping things in asbestos, keeping our images and fantasies at arm's length because they are so full of love

Arms, Asbestos, Fantasy, Psyche, Things

The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Why inquire if you already know the answer?

Coming, Death, Effort, Empties, Idea, Ideas

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault.

Attack, Faults, Grunts, Vietnam, War

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