James Hillman & Archetypal Psychology 101 | Glen Slater | HITW 172
April 23, 2025 at 08:00AM
Howling about Hillman, Jung, archetypal psychology, imagination and archetypes with Prof. Glen Slater
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Episode Description
In this episode we explore the topics:
* What makes Hillman a Post-Jungian?
* What’s the difference between Archetypal Psychology and a psychology of archetypes?
* The role of imagination and animism in Archetypal Psychology
* Distinguishing between Spirit & Soul
* Hillman’s concept of soul-making
* The Acorn Theory as a guiding myth
* What did Hillman mean by “the poetic basis of mind”?
Glen Slater studied psychology and comparative religion at The University of Sydney before coming to the United States in 1992 for doctoral work in clinical psychology. He has been teaching at Pacifica for over twenty years and is currently the Associate Chair of the Jungian and Archetypal Studies specialization. He also teaches in the Mythological Studies program. His publications have appeared in a number of Jungian journals and essay collections, and he edited and introduced the third volume of James Hillman’s Uniform Edition, Senex and Puer, as well as a collection of faculty writings, Varieties of Mythic Experience: Essays on Religion, Psyche and Culture. Beyond his work in Jungian and Archetypal Psychology, he writes on psyche and film as well as the psychology of technology. He lectures internationally in these areas of interest.
Previous episodes with Glen:
On Ridley Scott’s Alien: https://ift.tt/gTrQBos
On his book Jung vs. Borg: https://ift.tt/VyjMcP2
Glen’s course at Kosmos Institute: https://ift.tt/RTtVpF4
Book References:
James Hillman’s Uniform Editions: https://ift.tt/ZFxc0Ja
Suicide and the Soul (1964)
InSearch (1968)
Re-Visioning Psychology (1975)
The Soul’s Code (1996)
Senex & Puer (UE 3)
On Melancholy & Depression (UE 11)
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