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James Hillman – Re-Visioning Psychology Amazon:http://www.amazon.com/Re-Visioning-Psychology-James-Hillman/…Quote:”This groundbreaking classic explores the necessity of connections between our life and soul and developing the main lines of the soul-making process.””Hillman boasts in his foreword that this book is packed with ideas. He was being humble. It will take several rereads to fully savor all the things he has said and all the things he has intentionally left for our imagination to grasp and intuit. This is one of the few 20th century books I have come across that does indeed deal with psyche-ology–understanding the soul. The closest contender I have seen is Rollo May’s “Love and Will.” After reading Hillman other works read like elementary textbooks.Many may be repelled by Hillman’s seeming anachronistic and animistic return to gods, daimons, and personifications; as if taking the field of psychology on a regress. Hillman may even seem to some as living in a fantasy world concocted out of what he’s read between Plato and the Renaissance period. But this is not mere atavism on his part, to revive a nostalgic time and worldview. As Hillman states in his latest book “The Soul’s Code” we need only fall madly in love to admit of a daimonic possession. Gods–archetypes–animate us. Some gods may be dead but many others certainly are up to the task of roiling us.Hillman is a master writer. He is effusive as any scribe of the soul should be. He is poetic and mythic; he provokes the reader and evokes a litany of images and connections. Helmsmen Intuition and Imagination are continually steering Hillman’s hand. If there are contradictions in this work then they are most welcome, and even sought. How else can it be? Simple sciences breed simplistic answers. Something as complex as the soul and as great as the imagination cannot but procreate that which to Logic appears as contradictions. And so his style and objective as he admits is to confuse and confound rather than reduce and ground (in the empirical and, therefore, to a halt). There can be no pat and final answers or theologies of the soul and the gods, and Hillman makes certain of that. “My own scan – Thanks are appreciated.