UNIFORM EDITION OF THE WRITINGS OF JAMES HILLMAN

Originally written for the Italian Enciclopedia del Novecento, this indispensable book is a concise, instructive introduction to polytheism, Greek mythology, the soul-spirit distinction, anima mundi, psychopathology, soul-making, imagination, therapeutic practice, and the writings of C. G. Jung, Henry Corbin, and Adolf Portmann in the formulation of the field of Archetypal Psychology.

City & Soul, comprises Hillman’s writings on the psychology of public affairs: urbanism, environmental aesthetics, citizenship, and politics. Because basic ideas—the importance of mythical and archetypal foundations, anima mundi and animating the soul of the world, the politics of beauty and ugliness, city as nature, community and the common—are central to Hillman’s thought, these themes repeat throughout the book, a repetition that is necessary to the integrity of its inspiration.

This volume, for the first time, collects Hillman’s running encounters with a primary psychological pattern—an archetype that arises alongside the very attempt to fashion psychological perspective: senex and puer.

Moving Jungian psychology from types to images, to an image-based archetypal psychology, is James Hillman’s concern in this volume. This volume leads from Hillman’s principal essay on typology, “Egalitarian Typologies versus the Perception of the Unique,” to his expansive “Inquiry into Image.”

Alchemical Psychology combines all of Hillman’s papers on the alchemical imagination from 1980 to the present. Hillman called the early attempt to present his way of grasping this material, in the 1960s at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, “Alchemical Opus / Analytical Work.” His intention then as now is to give psychoanalysis another method for imagining its ideas and procedures by showing how alchemy bears directly on psychological life, more clinically immediate and less spiritually progressivist.

Mythic Figures, Volume 6 (previously Volume 6.1) of the Uniform Edition of the Writings of James Hillman, collects Hillman’s papers and lectures on many of the leading figures in mythology, including Aphrodite, Apollo, Athene, Dionysus, Hera, Hestia, Hermes, Oedipus, Okeanos, Orpheus, Mars, Moses, and Zeus. Myths have relevance to psychology because the Greeks, as Hillman writes, “had no depth psychology and psychopathology such as we have. They had myths. And we have no myths as such—instead, depth psychology and psychopathology. Therefore, … psychology shows myths in modern dress and myths show our depth psychology in ancient dress.”

Inhuman Relations, Vol. 7 of the Uniform Edition of the Writings of James Hillman, contains what could be described as Hillman’s more “clinical” writings. Hillman chose the title, Inhuman Relations, to emphasize the archetypal forces that shape our human interactions—the myths behind our messes, as he says in this volume.

Edited by the distinguished philosopher Edward S. Casey, Philosophical Intimations, Volume 8 of the Uniform Edition of the Writings of James Hillman, collects Hillman’s papers and lectures on language and learning; cosmology, metaphysics, and mathematics; philosophy of psychology; the aesthetic dimension; and future time; as well as three conversations with Casey on the need for metaphysics.

This volume includes the major Eranos lecture “The Animal Kingdom in the Human Dream,” and Hillman’s contributions to the out-of-print “bestiary” Dream Animals (with Margot McLean), as well as other essays and conversations on the animal theme.

This volume combines a previously published talk delivered by Hillman in Rome in 1999, “Depression, or Melancholy Without the Gods,” with a transcript of three seminars on the subject of melancholy and depression held at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California: “In Defense of Melancholy” (1992), “Depressive Syndromes” (1994), and “The Place of Depression in a Manic Civilization” (2000), edited for clarity and length by Tom Cheetham and Klaus Ottmann.

This volume will combine miscellaneous and occasional papers not included in the previous volumes of the Uniform Edition.