The Wound & The Gift

Hillman and Soul: What Archetypal Psychology Adds to Jung

Pathologizing as Soul-Making: Hillman's Radical Departure from Ego Psychology

James Hillman took Jung's most generative intuition — that the psyche is irreducible to the ego — and pursued it to a conclusion Jung drew back from. If the psyche is genuinely autonomous, then psychology must be conducted from its perspective, not the ego's. What does this reversal change?

What Is the Wounded Healer? Jung, Mythology, and the Psychology of Vocation

The wound is not an obstacle to the vocation. In the ancient medical tradition, the healer's authority derived from the wound that did not heal. From Asclepius to Chiron, the myth insists: pathology is initiation.