Healing Fiction

This book is Hillman's main analysis of analysis. He asks the basic question "What does the soul want?" With insight, humour, & lots of learning, he answers, "It wants fictions that heal." By looking again at the Great Originators of depth psychology, these chapters discover what is really meant by a "case history," "active imagination" & "inferiority feelings." Why such resistance in our culture & imagination? Why do we take our personal history literally & not literally? Why is reading dreams as dramas so valuable? We also learn the difference between case history & soul history, between deamons & daimones, & that the goal of therapy is both a release from the impossible fiction of "know thyself" & shift from realization to communal feeling.Hillman, James is the author of 'Healing Fiction', published 1994 under ISBN 9780882143637 and ISBN 0882143638.