James Hillman

In this work, Hillman's main deconstruction of therapy, he asks "What does the soul want?" and answers "Fictions that heal". By examining the three Great Originators of depth psychology--Freud, Jung, and Adler--this book looks again at what is really meant by "case history", "active imagination", and "inferiority feelings".

Healing Fiction

kaylee 

“The best entry into imperfection is humor, self-irony, dissolving in laughter, the acceptable
humiliation that requires no after-compensation upwards. The sense of
imperfection may be one way into communal feeling: another surer one is
the all-too-human bond of the sense of humor.” SO TRUE JAMES HILLMAN!!!

Rjyan C Kidwell

There's three parts to this book, and the second felt markedly less exciting than the first, but the third part explodes with insightful revelations about Adler that are unmissable if you have never had the insights of Adler revealed to you. A little bit of background in archetypal/depth psychology-- or another Hillman book-- is probably good before jumping in to this one, as Hillman doesn't go out of his way to catch you up on the concepts he builds on top of. But the things he does build are pretty incredible.

Healing Fiction

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