Abstract

S., João L. Corá  and  SERBENA, Carlos A. James Hillman and Phenomenology: the poetic basis of psyque. Junguiana [online]. 2022, vol.40, n.3, pp. 91-104. ISSN 2595-1297.

The main objective of this article is to reflect and point to the possible epistemological and ontological horizons of James Hillman's archetypal psychology by approaching it to a possible relationship with phenomenology. In order to fulfill this intention, it is necessary to delimit two starting points, namely: (1) The central motto of archetypal psychology of "stick to the image" and its possible relationship with the phenomenological notion of "back to things themselves". (2) The postulate of a mytho-poetic basis for the human psyche and the possible approach to the notion of poiesis as presented in Heidegger's phenomenology. Archetypal psychology emerges in a new "post-Jungian" context that seeks to replace an interpretive, univocal and metaphysical attitude with a phenomenological attitude towards images of the soul. The mytho-poetic basis and "stick to the image", central notions in his psychology, constitute the basis of this possible phenomenological attitude in his thinking.

Keywords : archetypal psychology; phenomenology; epistemology; poiesis; James Hillman.

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