| ||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £0.25
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in The Dream and the Underworld for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
First Sentence
It is sometimes said that most ideas can be put into a few words-like one of those pre-Socratic fragments-and these few words condensed into a title, so that what one calls a book is no easy matter. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
It is sometimes said that most ideas can be put into a few words-like one of those pre-Socratic fragments-and these few words condensed into a title, so that what one calls a book is no easy matter. Read the first page
Explore More
Concordance
Browse Sample PagesConcordance
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
James Hillman has written many books mapping the psyche. Having read most of them - and also this one - I would say this one particularly tackles a framework of how to resolve the psyche PRACTICALLY. Chapter 6 focuses on this. And it is workable. It worked for myself and my wife, and was the first real step in beginning to move beyond the ego.
Thank you, James Hillman, for being the only psychologist in my life (and I have read many many) to show me how to move beyond myself.
Thank you, James Hillman, for being the only psychologist in my life (and I have read many many) to show me how to move beyond myself.
20 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
First and foremost, James Hillman is a "Champion of Soul," responding appropriately to the everlasting question: "What is a man profited if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" How is one to "retrieve his/her soul?" Obviously, we need help to do so; hence, Jung and Hillman, and others, such as Marion Woodman, not to mention Joseph Campbell, William Blake, Robert Graves. One might even gain great insight from reading M. Esther Harding's classic: WOMEN'S MYSTERIES. They all come together eventually for the serious soulseeker. To sum up, quoting Hillman, "Dreams mean well by us," in spite of their appearance to the contrary; they are designed to dissolve the interfering Ego, the Ego that would deprive you of your true Happiness.
12 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
On page 103 where Hillman says "Again, what is hard to realize is that all the persons [in the dream], including myself may be taken as masks playing our death roles." After first thinking how great this sounded I wrote in the margin: but what does it mean? I'm still not sure whether it means anything in fact.
Coming to the end of the book, I am still baffled what his point is. I think he is saying that we shouldn't interpret dreams, just let them be. And while this is a valid viewpoint, why bother writing a book about it, as most people don't interpret their dreams anyway?
Like about book about how you shouldn't read books, a book giving an interpretation about how you shouldn't interpret maybe doesn't need reading.
It sounds profound, and I am still uncertain whether it is and I'm just missing the profundity. However, there are also lots of books by people about "Lightbodies" and "Truth Vibrations" which ultimately boil down to being nonsense, despite their apparent profundity.
I like his poetic style though. Maybe he missed his way.
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
