An intro to “Re-Visioning Psychology”

Webinar Description

In the wake of his presentation of four Terry Lectures at Yale University in the late-winter of 1972, psychologist James Hillman set to work, turning those lectures into his 1975 book, “Re-Visioning Psychology.” The book, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, covers a vast terrain, “from the Greeks through the Renaissance and Romantics to Freud and Jung,” by way of mythology, psychiatry, philosophy, and the humanities, with particular indebtedness to Jung. The book’s four parts lay out Hillman’s primary vision for soul-making via archetypal psychology, a psychology of soul that is based in a psychology of image and that starts in the processes of imagination.

“Re-Visioning Psychology” is a dense book packed with an almost exhaustive amount of insight, line after line, paragraph after paragraph, page after page, a text that reads at times like a poem, a story, or a reverie, often coming alive off the page with the richness, eloquence, and beauty of Hillman’s writing. This webinar will serve as a brief introduction to “Re-Visioning Psychology,” penetrating to its core ideas and showing how beneficial and applicable these ideas can be as a backdrop for astrologers. The book’s four chapters include: “Personifying or Imagining Things,” “Pathologizing or Falling Apart,” “Psychologizing or Seeing Through,” and “Dehumanizing or Soul-making.”

One hour talk followed by short Q&A session

This session is included in the course fees of Year 1 and 2 Diploma students