The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and CallingRandom House Publishing Group, 2013 M02 6 - 352 páginas “[An] acute and powerful vision . . . offers a renaissance of humane values.”—Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life Plato called it “daimon,” the Romans “genius,” the Christians “guardian angel”; today we use such terms as “heart,” “spirit,” and “soul.” While philosophers and psychologists from Plato to Jung have studied and debated the fundamental essence of our individuality, our modern culture refuses to accept that a unique soul guides each of us from birth, shaping the course of our lives. In this extraordinary bestseller, James Hillman presents a brilliant vision of our selves, and an exciting approach to the mystery at the center of every life that asks, “What is it, in my heart, that I must do, be, and have? And why?” Drawing on the biographies of figures such as Ella Fitzgerald and Mohandas K. Gandhi, Hillman argues that character is fate, that there is more to each individual than can be explained by genetics and environment. The result is a reasoned and powerful road map to understanding our true nature and discovering an eye-opening array of choices—from the way we raise our children to our career paths to our social and personal commitments to achieving excellence in our time. Praise for The Soul’s Code “Champions a glorious sort of rugged individualism that, with the help of an inner daimon (or guardian angel), can triumph against all odds.”—The Washington Post Book World “[A] brilliant, absorbing work . . . Hillman dares us to believe that we are each meant to be here, that we are needed by the world around us.”—Publishers Weekly |
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... vision” and “calling,” privileging them over small reductions. We do not want to belittle what we do not understand. Even when, in a later chapter, we do look carefully at genetic explanations, we find mystery and myth there, too. At ...
... vision” and “calling,” privileging them over small reductions. We do not want to belittle what we do not understand. Even when, in a later chapter, we do look carefully at genetic explanations, we find mystery and myth there, too. At ...
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... vision accompanying the soul into the world? The Romantics understood this inherent grandiosity of the child. How did they put it: “trailing clouds of glory as we come”? Barbara's hands could not heft a heavy hammer, nor could Yehudi's ...
... vision accompanying the soul into the world? The Romantics understood this inherent grandiosity of the child. How did they put it: “trailing clouds of glory as we come”? Barbara's hands could not heft a heavy hammer, nor could Yehudi's ...
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... vision to “compensation” for the isolated selfenclosed fantasies of her childhood's gray days. Again a father. And again an opportunity to slip in a Freudian interpretation: Eleanor's Electra complex (love for the father and desire to ...
... vision to “compensation” for the isolated selfenclosed fantasies of her childhood's gray days. Again a father. And again an opportunity to slip in a Freudian interpretation: Eleanor's Electra complex (love for the father and desire to ...
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... vision, an ideal that calls. To what precise actuality it calls usually stays vague if not altogether unknown. If all superiorities are nothing more than overcompensated inferiorities, and all gifts but reformed wounds and weaknesses in ...
... vision, an ideal that calls. To what precise actuality it calls usually stays vague if not altogether unknown. If all superiorities are nothing more than overcompensated inferiorities, and all gifts but reformed wounds and weaknesses in ...
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... VISION OF CHILDREN During early life person and daimon often are taken to be one and the same, the child absorbed by the genius, a confusion which is understandable since the child has so few other powers and the daimon comes with so ...
... VISION OF CHILDREN During early life person and daimon often are taken to be one and the same, the child absorbed by the genius, a confusion which is understandable since the child has so few other powers and the daimon comes with so ...
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Neither Nature nor NurtureSomething Else | |
Penny Dreadfuls and Pure Fantasy | |
Disguise | |
Fate | |
The Bad Seed | |
Mediocrity | |
A Note on Methodology | |
Dedication | |
Bibliography | |
Other Books by This Author | |
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