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If every life and every twist in life has its own beauty, why is there such judgment that comes with each of those lives or twists in lives?
It has been believed that beauty has had to be neglected because it was regressive (i.e., considering the Oedipal model). To see something as beautiful can be viewed as base. Beauty has become something that can only be mentioned in certain situations -- at the right place, at the right time because of what we associate beauty with.
Beauty has often been symbolic of the solely aesthetic approach, which produces some sort of embellishment rather than any kind of sincere meaning. By developing the soul -- or the psyche, we discover the beauty of ourselves. When a beauty of the soul is cultivated, it will be far more beautiful than any kind of aesthetic beauty. The soul will give form to what it holds within itself.
Beauty can be found in numerous places besides the aesthetic. It can be found in nature, community, and religion (Hillman 1976). Beauty, Hillman (1976) explains, is an archetypal category. Beauty is important to the soul and the world soul because it is what animates them both. If one wanted to heal the soul of his or herself or of the world, beauty has to be released from the temporary jails from the places where it is held. Just like a piece of art is removed from a museum or an art store. Beauty can be found everywhere and in everything.
Hillman (1976) believed that a person does not have to go searching for beauty. One does not have to go to a museum or to the finest stores or even into nature to find beauty. Beauty can be everywhere. It can live in everything we see and in everything that we touch. It can live in a coffee shop, in the subway, in a cafe, or in a store. Where people go wrong is thinking that beauty can only live in certain places because that's where...
It limits the human experience and cuts us off from seeing beauty even in the simplest of places.
Archetypal psychology is much different from other areas of psychology like behaviorism, cognitive psychology or other. What is unique about archetypal psychology is that it allows room for people to be their fullest selves -- to not be victims of their own lives, to not blame outside factors for the course of their lives.
To be an archetypal psychologist means to delve deeper into the soul of the client (which is what many fields of psychology leaves out -- the soul). Archetypal psychology is important for finding the themes in a person's life, looking at those themes in regards to images and fantasies and finding ways for that person to better understand who she or he is. Archetypal psychology is much more than looking at genetic facts or looking at external reasons for why a man or woman (or child) acts they way he or she does.
What has often been discredited as strange or bizarre (dreams or fantasies) are taken very seriously in archetypal psychology. "If we pursue this difference between usual psychology and mythology, we see clearly how mythology saves the phenomena of psychopathology" (1976).
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Hillman, J. (1999). The force of character and the lasting life. NY: Ballantine Books.
Hillman, J. (1996). The soul's code: In search of character and calling. NY. Warner
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Hillman J. (1992). The thought of the heart and the soul of the world. Dallas: Spring
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