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Summary: Acorn This.
Review: Way too Transpersonal for me. I had to read this for a Psyche class. I was not impressed.
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Summary: Poetic Iconoclast
Review: What is most charming about Hillman's book is his writing style. It verges on the poetic. His work is challenging and yet fulfilling to read. It is not easy reading and it is not petty at all. Every statement of his is pregnant that reading it as if it were some fiction novel would be a great disservice to the author. Each sentence must be dwelt and meditated upon to crack the shell and expose the living fruit. Like the acorn Hillman's ideas are condensed into such a compact form from which a whole tree of ideas and images can blossom forth.Hillman is tantalizing, provocative, always the iconoclast who will not allow the dust to settle and peace reign. Instead of promoting the growing up paradigm of humanistic psychology he says we grow down. Instead of a developmental model he points us to calling as transtemporal. Like that first century Jewish rabbi Hillman plows right through the orthodoxy of both religion and psychology. And in so doing courts crucifixion by both sides. Hillman will not allow any stagnation and polarization of perspective. He piques and peeves without let that we may not die in the tranquility of the status quo. Forever the gadfly nothing is sacred to him--no idea, no theology, no science--except the stirrings of the soul. Hillman's courage to challenge academic psychology will earn him the ire and derision of today's priests of the mind and soul. But his works pave the way for the return of the soul and its gods as proper and crucial subjects of psychology.
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Summary: Post-modern psychology at its best.
Review: With deceptively simple metaphors and graceful prose, James Hillman calls each of us to examine and transform the moral foundation of our lives. He writes of "growing down" so that character and personality blossom in a way that benefits all-the individual as well as society. "Soul's Code.." can be read as a "how-to" roadmap for personal growth, but also as an elegant and eloquent plea for a thoughtfully moral society. An inspiring read; one of those books that my mind returns to at unexpected moments
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