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James Hillman (April 12, 1926 - October 27, 2011) was an American psychologist and a prominent figure in the field of analytical psychology. His research focused on dream analysis, mythology, and the relationship between the human psyche and nature. Hillman's works have had a profound impact on psychology, literature, and the arts.

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Famous James Hillman Quotes

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

Knows Bliss Follow Your Bliss

Author:James Hillman

“I have found that the person with a sense of story built in from childhood is in better shape than one who has not had stories . . One knows what stories can do, how they can make up worlds and transpose existence into these worlds. . . .One learns that worlds are made by words and not only by hammers and wires.”

Knows World Persons Made Stories Found Can Do Existence Childhood Shapes Built Wire Hammers

Author:James Hillman

“Many people nowadays who discover that they have a major symptom, whether psychological or physical, begin to study it. They get drawn very deeply into the area of their trouble. They want to know more than their doctor. That's a curious thing, and not at all the way it used to be.”

People Knows Way Want Used Study Trouble Majors Areas Doctors Psychological Used To Be Curious Symptoms Very Deep

Author:James Hillman

“How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live. For this we need relationships of the profoundest kind through which we can realize ourselves, where self-revelation is possible, where interest in and love for soul is paramount.”

Source: The Myth of Analysis: Three Essays in Archetypal Psychology

“I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate”

Knows Long America My Own Long Time Deficiency Expatriates

Author:James Hillman

“It's very hard to know what wisdom is”

Knows Hard

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“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?”

Ifs Knows Ideas Death Purpose Answers Effort Passionate Conclusion Inquiry Vitality Predestined

Book:The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life

Source: The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life

“You know, people come to therapy really for a blessing. Not so much to fix what's broken, but to get what's broken blessed.”

People Knows Broken Blessing Blessed Therapy

Book:Dream Animals

Source: Dream Animals

About the Author

Born: April 12, 1926
Died: October 27, 2011
Known for: Psychologist
Quotes: 158

Books & Sources

The Essential James Hillman: A Blue FireRelated source material

The Force of Character: And the Lasting LifeRelated source material

City and Soul: Uniform EditionRelated source material

The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and CallingRelated source material

We've had a hundred years of psychotherapy-- and the world's getting worseRelated source material

The Myth of Analysis: Three Essays in Archetypal PsychologyRelated source material

Alchemical Psychology: Uniform EditionRelated source material

Dream AnimalsRelated source material

Healing fictionRelated source material

Inter Views: Conversations With Laura Pozzp on Psychotherapy, Biography, Love, Soul, Dreams, Work, Imagination and the State of the CultureRelated source material

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