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Senex & puer / James Hillman ; edited and introduced by Glen Slater.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Hillman, James. Works ; v. 3.Publication details: Putnam, Conn. : Spring Publications, 2005.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxvii, 336 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0882145819
  • 9780882145815
Other title:
  • Senex and puer
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 150.1954 HIL 22
LOC classification:
  • BF175.5.A72 H56 2005
NLM classification:
  • 2006 C-222
  • WM 460
Online resources:
Contents:
Senex and puer : an aspect of the historical and psychologucal present -- Peaks and vales : the soul/spirit distinction as basis for the differences between psychotherapy and spiritual discipline -- Notes on opportunism -- The great mother, her son, her hero, and the puer -- Notes on verticality : creation, transcendance, ambition, erection, inflation -- Pothos : the nostalgia of the puer eternus -- Betrayal -- Puer wounds and Odysseus' scar -- On senex consciousness -- Negative senex and a renaissance solution -- Coda : a note on methodology -- Old and new : senex and puer -- Of milk-- and monkeys.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 150.1954 HIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39002100642025

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This volume, for the first time, collects James Hillman's running encounters with a primary psychological pattern, an archetype that arises alongside the very attempt to fashion psychological perspective. Senex and puer are Latin terms for "old man" and "youth," and personify the poles of tradition, stasis, structure, and authority on one side, and immediacy, wandering, invention and idealism on the other. The senex consolidates, grounds and disciplines; the puer flashes with insight and thrives on fantasy and creativity. These diverging, conflicting tendencies are ultimately interdependent, forming two faces of the one configuration, each face never far from the other. "Old" and "new" maybe the most direct terms for the pair.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Senex and puer : an aspect of the historical and psychologucal present -- Peaks and vales : the soul/spirit distinction as basis for the differences between psychotherapy and spiritual discipline -- Notes on opportunism -- The great mother, her son, her hero, and the puer -- Notes on verticality : creation, transcendance, ambition, erection, inflation -- Pothos : the nostalgia of the puer eternus -- Betrayal -- Puer wounds and Odysseus' scar -- On senex consciousness -- Negative senex and a renaissance solution -- Coda : a note on methodology -- Old and new : senex and puer -- Of milk-- and monkeys.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

The pioneering imaginative psychology of James Hillman that soon will span five decades has entered cultural history, affecting lives and minds in a wide range of fields. For the creativity of his thinking, the originator of Archetypal Psychology and author of A Terrible Love of War; The Soul's Code; and The Force of Character has received many honors, including the Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic. He has held distinguished lectureships at Yale, Princeton, Chicago, and Syracuse Universities, and his books have been translated into some twenty languages. The American public showed its appreciation of his approach to psychology by placing his book, The Soul's Code, at the top of the bestseller list of serious works of nonfiction. Of his many books, Spring

Publications has published Anima, Loose Ends, Archetypal Psychology:

A Brief Account, Pan and the Nightmare, Suicide and the Soul,

Insearch, Oedipus Variations (with Karl Kerényi), The Thought of the

Heart and the Soul of the World, Inter Views, and Lectures on Jung's

Typology (with Marie-Louise von Franz). He lives in Connecticut.

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