Mythcology
Jun. 5th, 2007 04:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonRandom quote of the day:
"Mythology is a psychology of antiquity. Psychology is a mythology of modernity."
—James Hillman, The Dream and the Underworld
I haven't read all of this book—I tend to read nonfic in fits and starts—but it's a pretty interesting look at the deeper meaning of dreams, in a depth psychology sense, an archetypal sense. It's a rethinking of dreamwork, rather than a rehashing of Freud and Jung.
One book of Hillman's that I can completely recommend (having read the whole thing!) is The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling. I'm not sure I agree with everything in it, but Hillman presents a fascinating argument for society helping people (and people helping themselves) to find their authentic selves, rather than settling for a sometimes arbitrary definition of "normalcy."
"Mythology is a psychology of antiquity. Psychology is a mythology of modernity."
—James Hillman, The Dream and the Underworld
I haven't read all of this book—I tend to read nonfic in fits and starts—but it's a pretty interesting look at the deeper meaning of dreams, in a depth psychology sense, an archetypal sense. It's a rethinking of dreamwork, rather than a rehashing of Freud and Jung.
One book of Hillman's that I can completely recommend (having read the whole thing!) is The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling. I'm not sure I agree with everything in it, but Hillman presents a fascinating argument for society helping people (and people helping themselves) to find their authentic selves, rather than settling for a sometimes arbitrary definition of "normalcy."