About the author
James Hillman (April 12, 1926 – October 27, 2011) was an American psychologist. He studied at, and then guided studies for, the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich. He founded a movement toward archetypal psychology and retired into private practice, writing and traveling to lecture, until his death at his home in Connecticut. == Early life and education == Hillman was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1926. He was the third child of four born to Madeleine and Julian Hillman. James was born in Breakers Hotel, one of the hotels his father owned. His maternal grandfather was Joseph Krauskopf, a rabbi in the Reform Judaism movement, who emigrated to the United States from Prussia. After high school, he studied at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service for two years. He served in the U.S. Navy Hospital Corps from 1944 to 1946, after which he attended the University of Paris, studying English Literature, and Trinity College, Dublin, graduating with a degree in mental and moral science in 1950. He began his career as associate editor for the Irish literary review, Envoy. In 1953 he moved to Switzerland where he met Carl Gustav Jung and began to study his work.
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💬 What our editors say about James Hillman's books
“Hillman’s argument is intellectually stimulating but demands patience from the reader. It rejects the comforting simplicity of genetic determinism or environmental conditioning, replacing them with a complex notion of pre-birth…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling
“Hillman’s text serves as a succinct yet profound introduction to his unique psychological paradigm, drawing heavily from Jung, Corbin, and Portmann. It is an essential resource for those wishing to understand psychopathology…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Archetypal Psychology
