The Essential James Hillman: A Blue Fire

Hillman’s approach takes psychology back to its ancient origins where the word literally means “study of the soul,” deriving from the Greek psyche.

Hughes also understood that myth, metaphor and symbolism are ways of organizing the psyche’s otherwise inchoate energy - psycho-technics, in other words. The Big Dreamers, like Dante and Shakespeare, are psycho-tects who expand human consciousness, creating vast mythical structures to give our souls shape. Yet we are losing the myths, Hughes warns,