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Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.

Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.

James Hillman
Psychology, Soul, Stories
James Hillman (1972). “The Myth of Analysis: Three Essays in Archetypal Psychology”, p.16, Northwestern University Press

Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.

James Hillman
Psychology, Needs, Awakening

Beauty is something everybody longs for, needs, and tries to obtain in some way - whether through nature, or a man or a woman, or music, or whatever. The soul yearns for it. Psychology seems to have forgotten that.

James Hillman
Men, Psychology, Soul
Source: scottlondon.com

Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.

James Hillman
Food, Psychology, Fundamentals

I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.

James Hillman
Ideas, Psychology, Emptiness
Source: scottlondon.com

In the cosmology that's behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or do anything.

James Hillman
Psychology, Reason, Cosmology
Source: scottlondon.com

As the popular trust in science fades - and many sociologists say that's happening today - people will develop a distrust of purely "scientific" psychology. Researchers in the universities haven't picked up on this; they're more interested in genetics and computer models of thinking than ever. But, in general, there is a huge distrust of the scientific establishment now.

James Hillman
Thinking, People, Psychology
Source: scottlondon.com

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