Free will

After all, we can still be quite clear that from the evidence of our feelings, and from the fateful idiosyncratic events, something else intervenes in human life that cannot be held within the confines of nature or nurture.

p.129, neither nature or nurture, but something else, soul’s code, James Hillman.

Correlations

… it doesn’t matter whether you are feminine or masculine or any composite of them. We all dissolve together. Far more urgent matters than gender call out to the passion of psychology.

p. 37, In a nutshell, the soul’s code – in search of character and meaning, James Hillman, 1996.

Humanism

So this book wants to set psychology back two hundred years, to the time when Romantic enthusiasm was breaking up the Age of Reason. I want psychology to have its base in the imagination of people rather than their statistics and diagnostics. I want the poetic mind applied to case histories so that we read them for what they are: modern forms of fiction, and not scientific reports.

p. 33, In a nutshell, The Soul’s Code – in search of character and calling, James Hillman, 1996.