Partners
SCUOLA MASTER INTERNAZIONALE DI STUDI SULL’ANIMA
SYMBOLON INSTITUTE
Postgraduate School of Psychotherapy with archetypal analytical orientation
JHAPA
Jung Hillman Archetypal Psychoanalysis Association
I CONFEDERATI
Organizzazione politico-culturale
ISTITUTO DI FILOSOFIA TERAPEUTICA Platone
INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION FOR CURATIVE ARCHITECTURE
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PHILOSOPHERS ANALYSTS
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Politics of Beauty
Cure of Anima Mundi
ANIMA MUNDI
PSYCHOLOGY AND POLITICAL HEALING
Of course I am in mourning for the land and water and my fellow beings. If this were not felt, I would be so defended and so in denial, so anesthetized, I would be insane. Yet this condition of mourning and grieving going on in my soul, this level of continuous sadness is a reflection of what is going on in the world and becomes internalized and called “depression”, a state altogether in me ─ my serotonin levels, my personal history, my problem. And the drug industry…and insurance companies are in general agreement. You must become even more anesthetized. Take Prozac: Depression is a disease and weakens the economy
James Hillman, Aesthetics and Politics
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The Soul of the Places
L’ANIMA DEI LUOGHI
The Soul of the places
“In ancient Greece, places such as crossroads, springs, wells, woods and the like, had specific qualities and specific personifications: gods, demons, nymphs, daimons and if someone lacked the awareness about all of this, was careless about the figures who lived at the crossroad or in the wood, was insensitive toward places, he or she could be in serious danger and could become possessed by them. Let’s consider, for example, nymphomania: the nymphs or Pan could overcome the traveller. Therefore it was necessary to be aware of what was happening, of what spirit, what sensibility or what imagination was overseeing a particular place, or how psyche, the soul, resonated with the place where one was.
It’s important to become aware of what places “contained”, held-inside, hat they were in-habited by. Each place had an intimate, peculiar quality.
This in, the inner reality of the place, is the soul of the place”
James Hillman, Carlo Truppi, “L’anima dei luoghi”, ed. Rizzoli