“[T]he personifying of the ancient Greeks and Romans provided altars for configurations of the soul. When these are not provided for, when these Gods and daemons are not given their proper place and recognition, they become diseases—a point Jung made often enough.”
“Mythical consciousness is a mode of being in the world that brings with it imaginal persons. […] Where imagination reigns, personifying happens. We experience it nightly, spontaneously, in dreams. Just as we do not create our dreams, but they happen to us, so we do not invent the persons of myth and religion; they, too, happen to us. The persons present themselves as existing prior to any effort of ours to personify. To mythic consciousness, the persons of the imagination are real.”
James Hillman, Re-Visioning Psychology
(1975, Harper & Row, Publishers)