A Blue Fire - James Hillman Review & Synopsis

 Synopsis

A vitally important introduction to the theories of one of the most original thinkers in psychology today, A Blue Fire gathers selected passages from many of Hillman's seminal essays on archetypal psychology.

Review

The pioneering imaginative psychology of James Hillman that soon will span five decades has entered cultural history, affecting lives and minds in a wide range of fields. For the creativity of his thinking, the originator of Archetypal Psychology and author of A Terrible Love of War; The Soul's Code; and The Force of Character has received many honors, including the Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic. He has held distinguished lectureships at Yale, Princeton, Chicago, and Syracuse Universities, and his books have been translated into some twenty languages. The American public showed its appreciation of his approach to psychology by placing his book, The Soul's Code, at the top of the bestseller list of serious works of nonfiction. Of his many books, Spring 

Publications has published Anima, Loose Ends, Archetypal Psychology: 

A Brief Account, Pan and the Nightmare, Suicide and the Soul, 

Insearch, Oedipus Variations (with Karl Ker�nyi), The Thought of the 

Heart and the Soul of the World, Inter Views, and Lectures on Jung's 

Typology (with Marie-Louise von Franz). He lives in Connecticut.

James Hillman's A Blue Fire burns through the entire range of his life's work in this lecture. Recorded during a seminar weekend in Rowe, Massachusetts, this talk is a conflagration of ideas. The result is Hillman revisions himself, his work, and archetypal psychology.

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The Essential James Hillman

First published in 1990. James Hillman is one of the leading figures in archetypal psychology and one of the most creative minds in psychology. This anthology of his writings presents carefully selected, choice passages from many of his seminal essays and work on archetypal psychology. Fundamental themes in Hillman's thought form the chapters of the book: poetic basis of mind, psychological polytheism, dreams, love, therapy. The book is intended for the reader who wants an overview or introduction to his highly original approach, an approach that draws on mythology, renaissance philosophy, alchemy and critical readings of Jung and Freud.

The book is intended for the reader who wants an overview or introduction to his highly original approach, an approach that draws on mythology, renaissance philosophy, alchemy and critical readings of Jung and Freud."

Blue Fire Part Two

In part two, of a two part set, Hillman discusses his ideas at a Seminar in Rowe Massachusetts during 1990. "The result is Hillmen revisions himself, his work, and archetypal psychology as he finds it today."

In part two, of a two part set, Hillman discusses his ideas at a Seminar in Rowe Massachusetts during 1990. "The result is Hillmen revisions himself, his work, and archetypal psychology as he finds it today.""

Hammering Hot Iron

Hammering Hot Iron is a rare work that raises important questions, draws vital distinctions, and elevates discourse within the spiritual community on the Men's Movement, Jungian psychology, archetypal and mythological studies, and polytheistic religions. Drawing on the perennial philosophy, the universal expression of absolute truth, Upton offers a metaphysical and cultural critique of Robert Bly's Iron John. Upton adopts Bly's shadow in the Jungian sense. His intellectual argument is masterfully intertwined with his own personal and spiritual journey, often expressed through original poetry. "The book is excellent. Upton's insights have exposed the shallow philosophical thinking associated with the Men's Movement, the inadequacy of polytheism as a religious faith, and the bias against Christianity. Hammering Hot Iron does a splended job of critiquing Jungian writers and in showing there is more to God than the archetype of God in the psyche. Thank you for your excellent work in setting the record straight " -- John A. Sanford, Jungian analyst "Charles Upton provides a long-overdue masterful critique of the Men's Movement, its popularizing heroes, and the archetypal psychology on which it is based. In this marvelously iconoclastic book, Upton articulates the feelings and thoughts of those who have left the movement or are wondering why they are still part of it. He does so with eloquence, wit, and not least, wisdom. --Georg Feuerstein, Ph.D., author of Voices on the Threshold of Tomorrow and Structures of Consciousness Charles Upton is a poet, social activist, and writer of the spiritual path. He is author of many other books published by Sophia Perennis

 A Blue Fire : Selected Writings of James Hillman , ed . Thomas Moore ( New York : HarperCollins , 1991 ) , 152-53 . 46. Eric Peet , A Comparative Study of the Literature of Egypt , Palastine and Mesopotamia ( Milford : Oxford University ..."

Afterlife

Utne Reader, cited in Hillman (1989), back cover. 21.^ Hillman J (T Moore, Ed.) (1989). A blue fire : Selected writings by James Gillman. New York, NY, USA: HarperPerennial. pp. 112–113. 22.^ Hillman J (T Moore, Ed.) (1989). A blue fire : ..."

Yoga Journal

For more than 30 years, Yoga Journal has been helping readers achieve the balance and well-being they seek in their everyday lives. With every issue,Yoga Journal strives to inform and empower readers to make lifestyle choices that are healthy for their bodies and minds. We are dedicated to providing in-depth, thoughtful editorial on topics such as yoga, food, nutrition, fitness, wellness, travel, and fashion and beauty.

For more than 30 years, Yoga Journal has been helping readers achieve the balance and well-being they seek in their everyday lives."

Eros and the Shattering Gaze

This timely and innovative expose by contemporary Jungian psychoanalyst, Ken Kimmel, reveals a culturally and historically embedded narcissism underlying men's endlessly driven romantic projections and erotic fantasies, that has appropriated their understanding of what love is. Men enveloped in narcissism fear their interiority and all relationships with emotional depth that prove too overwhelming and penetrating to bear--so much so that the other must either be colonized or devalued. This wide-ranging work offers them hope for transcendence. Explores: Transcendence of Narcissism in Romance Men-s Capacity to Love Kabbalistic Mysticism Post-modern Philosophy Contemporary Trends in Psychoanalysis

1 James Hillman , A Blue Fire : Selected Writings by James Hillman , “Father: Saturn and Senex”, Introduced and edited by Thomas Moore, (NY: Harper & Row, 1989), 208. Originally published “On Senex Consciousness,” Spring (1970): 146-165."

Jung’s Alchemical Philosophy

Traditionally, alchemy has been understood as a precursor to the science of chemistry but from the vantage point of the human spirit, it is also a discipline that illuminates the human soul. This book explores the goal of alchemy from Jungian, psychological, and philosophical perspectives. Jung’s Alchemical Philosophy: Psyche and the Mercurial Play of Image and Idea is a reflection on Jung’s alchemical work and the importance of philosophy as a way of understanding alchemy and its contributions to Jung’s psychology. By engaging these disciplines, Marlan opens new vistas on alchemy and the circular and ouroboric play of images and ideas, shedding light on the alchemical opus and the transformative processes of Jungian psychology. Divides in the history of alchemy and in the alchemical imagination are addressed as Marlan deepens the process by turning to a number of interpretations that illuminate both the enigma of the Philosophers’ Stone and the ferment in the Jungian tradition. This book will be of interest to Jungian analysts and those who wish to explore the intersection of philosophy and psychology as it relates to alchemy.

95 Hillman's and Giegeri 's ideas on psy ology, al emy, and the Philosophers' Stone express both a mutual appreciation and important differences in ... Hillman, quoted by Marlan in “ A Blue Fire ,” 5. 3. ... Work of James Hillman ,” 5."

Eranos

Every year since 1933 many of the world's leading intellectuals have met on Lake Maggiore to discuss the latest developments in philosophy, history, art and science and, in particular, to explore the mystical and symbolic in religion. The Eranos Meetings - named after the Greek word for a banquet where the guests bring the food - constitute one of the most important gatherings of scholars in the twentieth century. The book presents a set of portraits of some of the century's most influential thinkers, all participants at Eranos: Carl Jung, Erich Neumann, Mircea Eliade, Martin Buber, Walter Otto, Paul Tillich, Gershom Scholem, Herbert Read, Joseph Campbell, Erwin Schrodinger, Karl Kereyni, D.T. Suzuki, and Adolph Portmann. The volume presents a critical appraisal of the views of these men, how the exchange of ideas encouraged by Eranos influenced each, and examines the attraction of these esotericists towards authoritarian politics.

 James Hillman , Re-VisioningPsychology (NewYork: Harper & Row, 1975), 167. 16. Ibid., 169. 17. See Thomas More's introduction to the chapter “Many Gods, Many Persons,” in James Hillman , A Blue Fire : Selected Writings (New York: Harper ..."

Law & Inequality

See JAMES HILLMAN , A BLUE FIRE : SELECTED WRITINGS 36-49 ( Thomas Moore ed . , 1989 ) [ hereinafter HILLMAN , BLUE FIRE ] ; JAMES HILLMAN , REVISIONING PSYCHOLOGY 26-27 ( 1975 ) [ hereinafter HILLMAN , RE - VISIONING ] ."

Pragmatism, Neo-pragmatism, and Religion

A selection of 25 papers from a June 1995 conference in Highlands, North Carolina. Rorty himself presents the keynote address, Religious Faith, Intellectual Responsibility, and Romance, which will be published in the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to William James. Other topics include a paleopragmatic philosophy of the history of philosophy, the pragmatic secularization of theology, a hiatus in the liberal pragmatic view of culture and religion, and listening to indigenous peoples and neo-pagans. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

These reflections owe much to James Hillman , A Blue Fire , chs . 1 and 6 . 19. See Edward Casey , Spirit and Soul : Essays in Philosophical Psychology ( Dallas : Spring Publications , Inc. , 1991 ) for an outstanding reflection on ..."

Parabola

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How Scientific Accounts Appeal to Their Authors and Readers

Marie - Luise von Franz and James Hillman ( Dallas , TX : Spring , 1971 ) . ... and the introductions to each section in James Hillman , The Essential James Hillman : a Blue Fire , introduced and edited by Thomas Moore in collaboration ..."

The Paradigm Conspiracy

The resources here will guide you along a pathway of self-assessment, discovery, and fulfillment.This well-researched book exposes the addictive paradigms that bind us to society (and often to one another) and hinder our growth as free-thinking individuals and then provides a new framework through which we can approach our lives and view the world.

 James Hillman , A Blue Fire : Selected Writings by James Hillman ( New York : HarperCollins , 1989 ) , 53–54 . 16. Hillman , A Blue Fire , 53–54 . 17. Robert A. Monroe , Far Journeys ( New York : Doubleday , 1985 ) , 231–32 . 18."

Alchemical Psychology

This book collects all of James Hillman's papers on the alchemical imagination from 1980 to the present: "Therapeutic Value of alchemical Language"; "Silver and the White Earth I & II"; "Alchemical Blue and the Unio Mentalis"; "Salt: A Chapter in Alchemical Psychology"; "rudiments: Fire. Ovens, Vessels, Fuel, Glass"; "The Imagination of air and the collapse of alchemy"; "The Yellowing of the Work"; "White Supremacy"; "Concerning the Stone - Alchemical Images of the Goal"; "The Azure Vault: Caelum as Experience."

This book collects all of James Hillman's papers on the alchemical imagination from 1980 to the present: "Therapeutic Value of alchemical Language"; "Silver and the White Earth I & II"; "Alchemical Blue and the Unio Mentalis"; "Salt: A ..."

The Soul's Religion

In this, companion volume to his worldwide bestseller, Care of the Soul, Thomas Moore offers a way of living in this new and confusing century. Drawing on faiths front all over tile world, as well as from his own vast well of knowledge and personal experience, Moore shows its ]low religion can be used to embrace others, rather than exclude them. He helps its become comfortable with our doubts, and reveals a, liberating truth -- it is in the dark corners of the soul Chat trite faith is born. Intimate and provocative, Moore writes with the compassion of a parent and the wisdom of a trite teacher.

... Life Soul Mates Meditations Care of the Soul Dark Eros A Blue Fire : The Essential Writings of James Hillman (editor) Rituals of the Imagination The Planets Within The Soul's Religion Cultivating a Profoundly Spiritual Way of Life."

Fire Beneath the Cauldron

A collection of 22 short fictions from some of Canada's finest authors, including Douglas Glover, Sharon Butala, Marlene Nourbese Philip, Sean Virgo, and Dianne Warren. "This collection celebrates the short story in its incredible variety .... The edition aptly describes the stories as a self-portrait, a cross-section of the Canadian imagination." Canadian Materials.

The boy is held under water until he sees " blue fire ” . A Blue Fire was chosen by archetypal psychologist James Hillman as the title of his selected writings with its paeon to the " blue place of metaphor " , the highs and lows where ..."

Returning Words to Flesh

 James Hillman , “ Anima Mundi : The Return of the Soul to the World , ” in Spring 1982 ( Dallas : Spring Publications ) ... A fine collection presenting the range of Hillman's thought is A Blue Fire : Selected Writings by James Hillman ..."

Philosophy as a Rite of Rebirth

For their considerable assistance I am grateful to Reza Shah - Kazemi , Khalid Naqib , and my wife Virginia . - 1 The Essential James Hillman . A Blue Fire , ed . by Thomas Moore , London : Routledge ..."

Psychological Theories of Religion

This book surveys the major theorists in the psychology of religion--Sigmund Freud, C.G. Jung, William James, Erich Fromm, Gordon Allport, Abraham Maslow and Viktor Frankl--who are all seminal thinkers and represent the classical theories in this field. Each of these theorists presents a more or less comprehensive theory of religion, which attempts to give an account of the psychological origin and/or value of religion. The approach of the book, in each case, shows how the theory of religion emerges not only from the theorist's psychological theory, but also from his own life experience. Each chapter contains an introductory overview of the theory, biographical material on the theorist, his theory of personality, his theory of religion, and an evaluation of the theory of religion. This consistent chapter format discusses the theorists' influence on the field, points out some developments from and reactions to the theory, and raises certain questions in order to stimulate readers' own critical responses. For individuals who wants to view--and better understand--religion from the psychological perspective.

 James Hillman , Re - visioning Psychology ( New York : Harper and Row , 1975 ) , p.xiv . 124. Ibid . , p . 23 . 125. Ibid . , p . 22 . 126. Ibid . , P. 36 . 127. Thomas Moore ( ed . ) , A Blue Fire : Selected Writings by James Hillman ..."

The Soul of Shamanism

This work applies a shamanic dimension to psychology and psychological analysis to the notion of shamanism. It tracks the primal practices of the religious life through literary as well as anthropological sources and provides an analysis of contemporary and ancient shamanic practices.

 James Hillman et al . ( Dallas : Spring , 1979 ) , 54-74 . ... James Hillman , A Blue Fire : Selected Writings , introd . and ed . , Thomas Moore ( New York : Harper & Row , 1989 ) . 24. Ibid . , 15 . 25. Ibid . , 16 . 26 . Ibid . , 5 ."

Bibliothèque iranienne

See as an example James Hillman , “ Imaginal Practice : Greeting the Angel ” , in : A Blue Fire : Selected Writings by James Hillman , Thomas More , intro . and ed . , New York : Harper & Row 1989 , 50-70 where he wrote : “ Our method ..."

The Poet Figure in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens

Using a Jungian methodology, this \\vork analyzes the creation of imaginative selves (poet, poet figure, speakers, readers) in the poetry of Wallace Stevens.

74 James Hillman aptly acknowledges in A Blue Fire that " Most poetry . is printed on the page in a form that forces the eye to slow itself to the cadence of the images . ' Words transfer from the poetic maestro , the writer , to his ..."

Vijaynagar Visions

The book explores the religious imagination of the old Vijaynagar empire by investigating the culture of bhakti and the visionary experiences of bhakti saints.

6 James Hillman , A Blue Fire , Thomas Moore ed . , New York : Harper Collins , 1991 , p . 152 . 7 ' Visionary fecundity ' is used to describe such artists as William Blake , Walt Whitman , Pablo Picasso , and Bob Dylan ."