Tag Archives: Re-Visioning Psychology
Ralph Waldo Emerson & Other Renaissance Men (“Every Thing is Significant”)
Robert D. Richardson, Jr. begins his masterful biography of 19th century essayist, lecturer, poet, and Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson with these lines: “On March 29, 1832, the twenty-eight-year-old Emerson visited the tomb of his young wife, Ellen, who had been … Continue reading
“Tributes to Soul-Making” (“The Hadean Perspective”)
One of Mythfire’s favorite selections from psychologist James Hillman’s impressive oeuvre is all of five pages in length. Entitled Hades, Persephone, and a Psychology of Death, the passage can be found in “Dehumanizing or Soul-making,” the final chapter in Hillman’s Re-Visioning … Continue reading
Psych-eulogizing Clarence Clemons (“The Temple of Soul-Making”)
One danger in this and the previous entry is that of conveying the impression that an individual’s life may be reduced to a single mythological or psychological interpretation. Indeed, rather than suggesting that E Street Band sax man Clarence Clemons’ life … Continue reading
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