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The Life and Ideas of James HIllman

James Hillman Chronology:

1895: Grandfather Joel Hillman acquires his first hotel in Atlantic City.

1923: Grandfather, renowned reform Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, dies in Philadelphia.

April 12, 1926: James Hillman is born in an Atlantic City hotel room.

Summer 1936: Hillman takes a cross-country auto trip with his brother and other students.

September 1939-February 1943: Hillman attends high school in Atlantic City.

Summer 1942: Hillman travels to Mexico City to study Spanish, begins chronicling his life in letters to his family.

February 1943-June 1944: Hillman attends Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., works part-time as a newsroom copy boy for a CBS radio station.

June 1944: Hillman joins the Navy.

Summer 1945: Hillman’s introduction to the therapeutic, tending to blind veterans of World War Two, as part of the Navy Hospital Corps.

June 1946: Hillman accompanies his parents to Europe, becomes correspondent for American Forces Network in occupied Germany.

Early 1947: Hillman enrolls at the Sorbonne in Paris on the GI Bill.

Spring 1947: Hillman meets Kate Kempe at Paris club, falls madly in love. Hillman spends time with philosopher George Santayana.

November 1948: Hillman enrolls at Trinity College, Dublin. Becomes friends with future novelist J. P. Donleavy. Suffering from tuberculosis, spends several months at sanitarium in

Switzerland.

1949: Hillman becomes associate editor for Envy magazine, Dublin.

December 1950: Hillman graduates from Trinity College with MA in philosophy.

1951: Hillman travels with Kate and his friend Doug Wilson to Africa.

Summer 1951: Hillman and Kate go to Kashmir and settle there, where he begins work on a novel.

Summer 1952: Hillman meets Gopi Krishna in Kashmir. Hillman has “big dream” in the Himalayas that will send him into analysis eventually.

Fall 1952: Hillman marries Kate in Stockholm.

Spring 1953: Hillman and Kate enroll at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich.

1955: The Hillmans’ first child, Julia, is born.

April 1956: Daughter Carola is born.

1959: Hillman graduates Summa cum laude from the University of Zurich and receives Analyst’s Diploma from the Jung Institute.

1959-1969: Hillman serves as the first Director of Studies at Zurich’s Jung Institute.

1960: Hillman’s first book, Emotion, is published. A third daughter, Susanne, is born.

January 1961: A son, Laurence, is born.

June 1961: Jung dies.

Fall 1963: Hillman goes on lecture tour in America with Adolf Guggenbiihl-Craig.

October 1964: Hillman gives new paper on “Betrayal” in London.

1965: Hillman’s second book, Suicide and the Soul, is published.

Mid-1960s: Hillman learns that Kate has been having an affair with C. A. Meier, the analyst for both of them. Hillman’s own affair with a married patient is subsequently exposed publicly, and Meier sides with the woman’s husband in a court case against Hillman.

1966: Hillman is invited to be among the lecturers at the prestigious Eranos conference on Lago Maggiore, presenting “On Psychological Creativity.”

1967: Hillman’s third book, In Search: Psychology and Religion, is published.

Fall 1968: Hillman accepts an invitation to teach at the University of Chicago, bringing his family along.

Early 1969: Hillman is forced to resign as Director of Studies at the Jung Institute.

March 1969: Hillman visits the Warburg Institute in London, and conceives archetypal psychology. ~The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page xiii – xv

Quotations:

In late February 1953, when James and Kate [Hillman’s] arrived in Zürich, Jung and his wife Emma had just celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 208

Kate [Hillman] began weekly analyses with Emma Jung, whose book Anima and Animus was a classic within Jungian literature— and also, despite what might have been considered a “conflict-of-interest,” with [C.A.] Meier. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 213

Attending the Institute didn’t cost all that much, and the fee for a session of analysis was 40 Swiss francs, the equivalent of nine dollars. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 213

Sometime during the winter of 1953-54, while Hillman was taking [C.A.]Meier’s class in “Psychology of Dreams,” Emma Jung’s “Psychologie de Anima,” and Linda Fierz’s “Symbolism of Individuation,” he also went to a meeting of the Psychological Club, which the Institute students were occasionally allowed to attend. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 216

A few weeks after Julia’s [Hillman] birth, Emma Jung and Meier wrote Hillman that he had “satisfied the examiners in all subjects of the Propadeutical Examination for the Diploma of the C. G. Jung Institute. Your average grade was: 1.57 (very good). But the Curatorium emphasizes that this in no ways qualify you to practice analysis.” ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 222

A year later, in November 1955, he [Hillman] was examined by Emma Jung on “The Theory of Dreams and Interpretations.” At that time, though only a few intimates knew it, Jung’s wife of more than fifty years was diagnosed with stomach cancer. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 229

She [Emma] was never able to finish her magnum opus on The Grail Legend and died a few weeks later. The funeral was held in the Küsnacht Swiss Reformed Church, and both James and Kate [Hillman] attended (she had been in analysis with Mrs. Jung). ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 229

On the 27th of November Mrs. Jung died suddenly… People came from all over to take part in the funeral and the mourning was severe because she was so widely and deeply loved. ~James Hillman, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 229

It [Emma’s Funeral] was a very moving thing for us. We were sitting in the back of the church, when Jung came in a side door with about nineteen members of his family, children, grandchildren—an enormous procession, the patriarch with his following, his great fertility, the old man and his tribe. There was this sense of such strength. It really was an archetypal vision. ~James Hillman, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 229

In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential we embody, and if we do not embody that, life is wasted. ~Carl Jung, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 9

“Fredy,” as his [Meier[ friends had called him all his life, had been appointed the first president of the C. G. Jung Institute five years earlier. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 210

Born in April 1905, Meier had met Jung as a boy, been through analysis with him in the 1920s, obtained a medical degree from the University of Zürich, and started his own private psychiatric practice around 1930. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 210

During World War II, he’d served as Jung’s private secretary. “Fredy Meier was an extremely welcoming host, who liked his Scotch, Campari, and good French wines,” wrote Thomas B. Kirsch in The Jungians. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 210

In 1948, Meier had taken over Jung’s professorship at the Federal Polytechnic Institute, and become president of the Analytical Psychology Club as well as the newly-formed Jung Institute. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 210

I felt I was an extravert. And he [Meier] said, ‘I’m not so sure about that.’ Which was a good answer, because he left it uncertain. I think you go through phases in your life when you are more extraverted or more introverted, so I could not classify myself one way or the other that easily. ~James Hillman, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 214

Meier contributed very little verbally to my analysis. He was, I think, very passive. But he was a model of physical presence, and that’s what I seemed to need the most. He carried the projections of an earth spirit—rather than a head or heart spirit—a tough man spirit. It was, for me, about being in my own body, and being present. ~James Hillman, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 215

He [Meier] was a slightly older psychic brother for me,” “and the first one to say about analysis, when I was finding it so difficult at the beginning: ‘You just have to submit, go through it, the whole way is through submission.’ ~James Hillman, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 215

For Hillman, Meier represented something of the same male vitality, as did Mircea Eliade, as had the poet Patrick Kavanagh in Dublin. “They gave the impression of being physical men, while I was Jimmy. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 217

“My feeling problems with Meier and Scharf I work out right there with them,” “Especially with Meier because I dream of his lack of feeling and then we talk about it. You see, his not having feeling doesn’t mean that I can’t work towards it, or that he and I together can’t work towards it.” ~James Hillman, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 219

His analyst, C. A. Meier, was chosen as pro-tem president. “I was twenty-nine years old, already a father, but I felt like a boy among presences!” Hillman would recall ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 226

To his analyst, Meier, Hillman would also write about his “inherited weakness” which “makes the road to my salvation very tough. But of course this ‘toughness’ is just the salvation. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 227

Spiegelman and Hillman would take classes together, socialize on a regular basis, and share an analyst in Meier. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 237

Because Stein, like his Jewish compatriots Hillman and Spiegelman, also entered analysis with Meier, they were considered a triumvirate. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 238

Meier, who in a résumé submitted that year when applying for a visiting lectureship in America had self-described his status as “generally acclaimed as the most brilliant disciple of Dr. Jung, resigned as president of the Institute earlier in 1957 after a rift with Jung. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 241

I modeled myself on his way of doing analysis—which was dream analysis and active imagination as dialogue, which I did a great deal of. Turning to books and scholarship or symbol history for understanding your own dreams is very much a Zürich style— and was Meier’s style. ~James Hillman, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 241

Meier had written a monograph called Ancient Incubation and Modern Psychotherapy, whose focus was a location of legendary healing in Greece, the Sanctuary of Asclepius. When James and Kate had first arrived in Zürich, they had studied German by trying (unsuccessfully) to assimilate Meier’s text. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 242

Arriving in Greece late that summer of 1957, the young Hillmans and the older Meiers rented a boat. Their destination was the eastern end of the Peloponnese island chain, and a place called Epidaurus. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 242

Hillman would write in a Preface to the American Edition of Meier’s book, published in 1967. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 242

Unlocking the significance of such a dream back then was not something Hillman received any assistance with from Meier. “His interest in Greece probably awoke my interest, but it didn’t come straight from him. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 242

I started too high up in my attempt to connect. I thought I had to know more Greek, or get there through knowledge. And Meier was absolutely silent. ~James Hillman, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 242

The following August of 1958, James and Kate made a second journey to Greece, with his wife once again paying for the Meiers to accompany them. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 243

Now Meier and Hillman began meeting occasionally in Zürich with a small group that included the well-known medium Eileen Garrett, president of the Parapsychology Foundation of New York. Garrett believed that “without feeling or emotion, ESP doesn’t work.” ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 254

ld in Saint Paul-de-Vence, France, in mid-July 1961, Hillman and Meier were among the participants, along with anthropologist Francis Huxley and his novelist uncle, Aldous Huxley. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 254

Hillman reflected in 2011, between science and soul, “which manifested particularly where I was on the one hand working at the Institute and trying to stay with soul, and on the other hand working in Meier’s view of parapsychology with the [Eileen] Garrett scientific experiments. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 259

In “Friends and Enemies,” which Hillman delivered at the Society for Analytical Psychology in London that fall, he was also considering the curious relationships with his first analysts, C. A. Meier and Rivkah Scharf-Kluger. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 264

As Stein wrote Hillman after re-reading “Friends and Enemies” in 1964: “I had not realized how much your relationship to Meier probably entered into your need to write it.” ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 265

“Even though Meier was Jung’s right-hand man for almost three decades, they had a personal rift late in Jung’s life,” “In turn Meier had very difficult relationships with his own male students. After his resignation from the Institute in activities. ~Thomas Kirsch, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 265

In 1957 Meier withdrew from most Jungian … He was concerned about the direction the Institute was taking, because the approach to the unconscious was becoming too disconnected from modern science. As a medical doctor and psychiatrist he wanted to return to the scientific basis for the study of dreams and the unconscious.” ~Thomas Kirsch, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 265

Hillman had stopped seeing Meier for therapy in 1959, not long after the second trip that Meier took at the Hillmans’ invitation to Greece. Meier was angry with Hillman because, now that he’d been named Director of Studies, Hillman was working closely with Franz Riklin, who had replaced Meier as Curatorium president. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 266

Between the two older men, there was deep enmity. After Meier made “some cynical remark” about Riklin, Hillman realized that he couldn’t have both the Institute job and continue his analysis. However, Hillman continued trying to bridge the gap. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 266

Meier finally wrote back that, while he was “deeply touched” by Hillman’s strong belief in him, he held an increasingly dim view of the Institute the more distance he got from it. He did not want to “become contaminated” again. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 266

The thing with Meier is of course a nuisance, but nothing can be done about it, since he counts himself so important in the world scheme of things.~Kenny Donoghue, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 266

Hillman’s friend Spiegelman had once asked Meier, who was his analyst as well, whether Jung was anti-Semitic. “No more than the average Swiss,” Spiegelman recalled the answer, and later realized that Meier was really talking about himself. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 271

Hillman, making his own stand, was also running into opposition, and it cut close to home. His first female analyst, Rivkah Scharf-Kluger, reportedly found Suicide and the Soul “too extreme.” Hillman was told that Meier also “was really angry about it. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 275

As Hillman put it, “His [Meier’s] ambition was completely scientific and university professorship.” ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 276

While not a member of the governing Curatorium, as Director of Studies he attended all of its meetings. Curatorium President Franz Riklin was Hillman’s boss. Liliane Frey, the analyst Hillman continued to see on a regular basis, and Meier, whom Kate was still seeing weekly, both strongly disliked Riklin for what they considered a power grab. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 276

Arthur recalled sharing the insecurity he felt about his wife’s and Hillman’s relationship with both Frey and Meier. “Dr. Meier basically said nothing in response to that… She [Frey] interpreted it as a homoerotic fantasy on my part… There was a dinner dance held by the institute for faculty and students/trainees. Hillman danced with Bea, cheek to cheek. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 290

~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 293 Meier reportedly had intimate relations not only with Kate Hillman, but with a number of his female patients. As Marvin Spiegelman put it in one of our interviews: “Look what his [Meier’s] wife said when somebody talked about having sex with patients—‘Oh, Fredy does” that all the time.’ ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 293

According to Hillman, Marie-Louise von Franz said: “The trouble with Meier is, he has no creative anima,’ implying that’s why he runs after women, because he can’t connect [to] himself. I think that’s a pretty good observation. He was blocked; because Meier’s anima was all projected onto women, he couldn’t produce.” ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 293

[It was] “[a] foolish affair . . . ” “I’m sure I knew that I was tempting fate. When you consider reading life backwards, I think that unconsciously I had to fall, to have something terrible happen. I had to really sin, to be initiated. “It was a kind of violation or rupture with the professional code, [one] that put me among the ‘big boys’: Meier, Jung, and other Zürich analysts who were my mentors and seniors.” ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 294

Dr. Meier said I should sue Hillman for the affair [with Arthur’s wife], and he would obtain a lawyer in Zürich for me to follow up, which he did. He also to my surprise actually wrote in the letter, that Hillman, for whom he had been the training analyst, was one of two people in his lifetime he had known personally that he considered evil. ~Arthur V., The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 297

Yet Meier and two other Curatorium members, supported by Liliane Frey and Jolande Jacobi, intended to bring Hillman before a hearing. Riklin mobilized to try to stop them and, wrote Hillman, “in great silence Adolf [Guggenbühl] and I planned our moves.” ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 299

The day before a scheduled meeting of the Curatorium, Hillman wrote his friend Stein, “Meier called me to see him, which he has never done before, and during an hour urged me to resign in the name of ‘scapegoat’ to protect our name and group. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 299

Another who did not turn against Hillman was Franz Riklin. As with his enemy Meier, his ties to Jung went way back. Riklin’s mother was a cousin of Jung’s, and his father had worked closely with Jung during the early stages of analytical psychology. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 301

Like Meier, he[Riklin] had undergone analysis with Jung and begun teaching at the Institute right after it opened in 1948. He had been instrumental in the founding of both the Swiss Society and International Society for Analytical Psychology. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 301

Hillman wrote Stein of having a “psychotic Episode” in a dream, where he “cried like a six month old baby . . . with Meier lying near me on the bed as analyst.” Hillman did not learn until 2010 that Meier had gotten Reverend V. a Swiss lawyer and urged Arthur to pursue Hillman in court. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 301

Guggenbühl remembered Meier writing something concerning Hillman to the Institute like: “Why the hell don’t you get rid of that little Jew.” ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 301

Jim had admired Meier, for a long time. Meier was a big prophet or tutor for Jim. I always hated Meier. Not only hated him, but he was physically repulsive to me. When there was a dinner or something, and I had to sit beside him, I’d have to leave. For me his moral guidelines were absent. He was in some ways ruthless, but sentimental and ruthless. ~ Adolf Guggenbühl, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 301

Although Hillman had sought to distance himself from Meier after the analyst’s seduction of Kate, he’d been forced back into a working relationship shortly before the “scandal” broke. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 301

One of these was Meier’s 1948 monograph on Greek healing rituals at Asklepius, Ancient Incubation and Modern Psychotherapy. Meier wrote Hillman that he was pleased to hear of this development “at long last . . . for which I have been asked so many times, and I wish to thank you very much for your effort.” ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 301-302

As for the older generation there as Kate says they are all Europeans and can join in one thing, the European power problem, even where they can’t join in anything else. ~James Hillman, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 302

At another point, when Liliane Frey was telling people that Hillman had betrayed “his spiritual mother and father” (meaning herself and Meier), it was Kate who turned it around, saying to her husband: “And what did they do to you? But you see in Europe the young must obey the old, not the old support and follow the young.” ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 302

The powers-that-be in Zürich were enormously envious of my getting that spot at Eranos, I mean, Meier had wanted to be the Eranos psychologist. James Kirsch, an older analyst from L.A., had wanted desperately to replace [Erich] Neumann as the lecturer after his death. He [Kirsch] stirred up trouble like crazy against me [in the U.S.], because he wanted me out of there so he could be the Eranos psychologist. ~James Hillman, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 311

Freud destroyed by Jung, and Meier destroyed by his fight with Jung, and now Meier and me fighting… all on account of love… or is it also historical, that is, an inevitable fight, because our culture knows no other way of moving from one spirit into another. ~James Hillman, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 323

Meier, “on the verge of a lawsuit” with Hillman over the Northwestern book, had told him that Reverend V. was regularly forwarding him copies of all correspondence with the Reverend’s lawyer. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 323

This is hard for me, since my own academic shadow (and father complex, and inner Meier, and rabbi) tend to push me towards the learned side. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 324

He [Hillman] went on to write of “the ugly reactions” of the Jungian hierarchy as personified by Meier and Frey. “We are sort of grouped together in their minds, and in the long run it is important for us and for Jungian psychology that it not be led by the old duffers and their ‘pupils,’ but that those of us who are carrying something alive in us come out on top. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 326

Heinrich-Karl Fierz, a long-time Institute professor and medical director of the Zürichberg Clinic that Meier had founded in 1964, sent a registered letter about Hillman’s editing of the Northwestern Series and purportedly “stealing books from Meier and Jacobi” as being “uncollegial” and having violated statutes. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 335

In sending a copy of the letter to his friend Spiegelman, Hillman added a handwritten note at the bottom of the page: “Here it is! Can’t fight the police, so I am in a sense DISBARRED (no practice, no teaching, no work). I feel relieved, but it is a bad thing, especially for the Spirit, for Adolf too; he is alone now.” ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 342

“I interpret the ‘great sacrifice’ [I Ching 45] as either seeing Meier (whom I have vowed never to submit to again) or as resigning the Institute work. ~James Hillman, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 297

Hillman could not remember exactly when—he learned that Kate, who was still seeing Meier for analysis, had been intimately involved with him. “I don’t know how I found out. I know only that at a sudden moment, I was in Meier’s office and said something that accused him. And he said, ‘You have to talk to Kate about that.’ Meaning, ‘I’m not going to say anything.’ ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 283

Jung had told him that at his first meeting with Freud in Vienna fifty years earlier, Freud’s wife’s younger sister (Minna Bernays) had taken him aside and confessed to having an affair with Freud. “It was a shocking discovery to me, and even now I can recall the agony I felt at the time,” Jung reportedly told Billinsky. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 286

Then, six months after Jung’s death, Meier wrote Billinsky that, like the New York and London groups, Zürich’s Institute was betraying the great man by selling him to the public “in order to be somebody themselves” and cash in on Jung. Page 286

Acquiring prestige, Meier added, was easier than being true to one’s own soul – implying that he was doing the latter Though Meier did not name names, the implication seemed to be that Hillman’s fundraising and other activities seeking to expand the Institute’s horizons went very much against his grain. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 286

Hillman had already found out about his wife’s relationship with Meier when, a few months prior to his “Betrayal” lecture in 1964, he wrote to J. P. Donleavy: “I get immersed with the women patients, seem to have nine women for every man, heart is all pulled out by them, the fantastic marriages people live.” ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 289

Along these lines, when Hillman went to see Meier after receiving this highest of accolades, “I remember saying to him that I felt somehow I had fooled them, that I didn’t really earn it.” Looking back, he would see this as a Hermes aspect of his character, this sense “that I’m favored by luck, that it’s not just me but something else is at work. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 246

The feelings of decline and decay about the Institute that I encounter in many people and the growing dissatisfaction and even disloyalty point to a crisis that you have yourself been aware of and told me about many months ago. Rather than delay, it is a time for decisions. ~James Hillman, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 252

In 1953, C. A. Meier had addressed an International Conference of Parapsychological Studies. Steeped in the scientific approach, Meier believed “that parapsychological phenomena are often a compensatory mechanism on the part of the unconscious and are not always at the disposal of the will of an experimenter in a formal public situation. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 254

Leaving the two little children behind with their nanny, now he [Hillman] would travel to Greece with Kate. But not only with Kate. In an unorthodox thing to do, they were accompanied by the analyst they shared, C. A. Meier, and his wife Joan. Even more unorthodox, Kate paid for the whole trip. Her sister, Tonie, came, too. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 241

According to Hillman’s recollection, Jung didn’t approve of Vasavada’s propounding “a completely Hindu religious point of view,” as a neophyte Jungian analyst. “As Jung saw it, ‘this guy didn’t learn anything.’ Meier [Vasavada’s analyst said, ‘Look, he’s from India and that’s the way he thinks.’ It was a tempest in a teacup, but Meier had resentments and I’m sure there were other things involved.” ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 241

It was extraordinary that he should do this in public for it made him look both foolish and aggressive and partisan. Then came a registered letter from Meier, with copies to the Curatorium, threatening legal action over the book he and Hillman had been working on together for Northwestern University Press (a translation of Meier’s Ancient Incubation and Modern Psychotherapy) claimed, correctly, that Hillman hadn’t informed him that a Preface written by Jung for his original edition was not being included, an “oversight” that according to Hillman, he apologized to Meier for Meier was now insisting that his book be published first in the series, that the Jung Preface supplant a new one by Hillman and finally that Hillman’s name not even appear, “neither as editor nor otherwise,” in connection with the volume. Meier later threatened to withdraw the book from publication, despite considerable money having been spent on its preparation. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, 320-321

The writing of this preface coincided with Meier charging him “with the most extraordinary things such as being evil,” while refusing to admit “guilt on any point in regard to me, nor even to any bad feeling.” This had occurred following a two-hour meeting between them “in a beer place, where we tried to straighten everything out. We came to an agreement there, but two days later he took it back in a letter and spoke of my betrayal complex, my repressions, cheating him [and of] being in the presence of evil. At the meeting, Meier had allegedly made the astounding assertion that he doubted the situation between Hillman and Reverend V. could ever be resolved because it was “two Jews fighting each other.” The Reverend, of course, was hardly Jewish, but that was the way Meier projected the whole mess. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, 322

What happened with the dream group, along with the matter of eros, seemed to lead Hillman back to Meier. As Hillman wrote to Spiegelman:

“It has to do with love between men, with homoeroticism in the deepest sense, coupled with the Germanic-Jewish problem also in its homoerotic aspects.” It was, perhaps, not that Meier didn’t love him, rather that “as Adolf sees it, he loves me very much . . . and he cannot handle his guilt towards me nor his love towards me, and ends with this peculiar projection of finding me ‘evil’! This last is so devastating, that it has the paranoid homosexual love thing in it.” ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 322

In fact, it was not yet over. That April came a nine-page compilation spearheaded by Meier that was called an “Aide-Memoire Concerning the Present Situation of Analytical Psychology in Switzerland.” It began by referencing “for several years a definite malaise which has developed more and more into a real crisis” with the Jung Institute and Hillman’s affair as its “true focal point.” Above all, “the appearance of uncontrollable rumors” had resulted in “an increasing poisoning of collegial relationships, particularly between those colleagues who were and still are in the immediate orbit of the crisis. Through this crisis an immeasurable harm has been done to the esteem of the work of Professor C. G. Jung in Switzerland and abroad.” The Hillman affair, Meier claimed, was “to a large extent the consequence of the conditions prevailing at the Institute,” statutes with “no clear separation of the powers in Legislative and Executive” that inevitably led “to an undemocratic, autocratic regime.” Here Meier was apparently looking to settle old scores dating back to his being ousted as Curatorium president twelve years before. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 342

Spiegelman quit his local Jungian society in Los Angeles after that, not to return for fourteen years. Later, though, he corresponded with Meier and, shortly before Meier died at the age of ninety in 1995, saw him in Switzerland. Spiegelman remembered deciding to ask the old man a question—about betrayal. While avoiding the subject of Hillman, Spiegelman brought up Tony Frey. Frey had undergone analysis with Meier and they had once been the closest of colleagues. In 1964 Frey had established with Meier the world’s first and only in-patient Jungian psychiatric clinic, the Zürichberg. Then he and Meier had a falling out, and Meier booted him, and Frey fought him into Federal court and lost. In 1996, Frey (who was married) had told an interviewer:

“What went wrong, I think, was that neither of us was aware of the transference and countertransference between us . . . Meier was always against the homosexuals. Given Meier’s and Riklin’s diametrically opposed reactions, the lines were being drawn. Hillman sat down and wrote a letter of resignation to Riklin, but found he “just couldn’t give it to him. I thrashed around in my room for hours… praying, thinking… ” At last he had consulted the ancient Chinese oracle, the I Ching (Book of Changes) seeking insight into what to do. He set down his thoughts in a private memorandum of several typewritten pages: ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 297

Then I did talk to Kate and she said yes [confirmed what had happened]. I remember going back to Meier and he brushed it aside in two ways, one being ‘oh, it was just short’ or something like that, which it wasn’t but meaning that it wasn’t important, but secondly implying that it was necessary to keep her in therapy or in transference or from going crazy. In other words, as if it hadn’t been for that, maybe things” would have been worse, some sort of justification like that.” “I was on the edge of physically hitting him. But I didn’t, I wish I had.” ~James Hillman, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 283

Even many years after the fact, it was still not easy to talk about. In the late summer of 1963 —whether before or after he found out about Kate and Meier is not known—Hillman had written his wife a letter while en route to Zürich after their being together in Sweden: “Our love seemed never to have gone so deep and intimate before as love, not only understanding and gentleness and all the good things our marriage has at times, but a deep personal desire for each other. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 284

The following year Meier confided in the pastoral counselor that his difficulties with Jung appeared “irreparable.” Billinsky, recalling how Jung had spoken so admiringly of Meier during their meeting, responded that Jung may have realized he was too much a father figure and so fostered such a situation to make Meier “completely independent.” (Hillman saw such a situation differently: “My fantasy of it sees a curse from Freud to Jung, and from Jung to his generation of men pupils . . . All the eros between men was botched.”) ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 286

“I [Meier] had some of the most exciting experiences there by making a number of unheard of discoveries. What those discoveries consisted of, Meier never specified, but the two couples’ three-week sojourn had included a week on “a hired little boat, sailing & swimming” on the “island of Kos, where lived Hippocrates, the first healer, [whose] tree still stands,” Hillman wrote Donleavy. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 243

After Hillman’s female analyst, Rivkah Scharf-Kluger, left to live in Israel, since May 1957 he had been seeing another of Jung’s female devotees, Dr. Liliane Frey, in addition to Meier. Now, having fulfilled “the minimum of 300 hours divided between a man and woman analyst” as well as 431 supervised hours seeing eight patients, Hillman applied to the Curatorium to present himself for the Diploma-Examinations. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 246

Jung had taken an active role until 1950, at which point he’d decided to resign from the Curatorium due to aging health so that he could devote his time to writing. The Institute’s teaching then fell to his “disciples” and, according to Hillman’s recall, “Meier had all kinds of gestures that were like Jung. He smoked like Jung. [Marie-Louise] Von Franz was also imitative of Jung, spoke with a certain affectation in her voice.” ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 210

“The main objective of this trip was ‘to get acquainted with the literature’ so that I might find out if this thesis-project suited me. I can say it does! I am deeply in it. I feel married to it; I love it, yes, even physically excited, interested. I had no idea that this would happen and it changes my view towards the doctorate from one of an ‘outer’ event done for the sake of ‘dignity,’ to something most vivifying. And mind you now, I am not writing in euphoria; the thing is a battle. I get ill, have had fever again, get exhausted, confused—but sometimes a pattern of insight emerges so intense that I can hardly scribble it

down. This is the way creative work should go; I know, I was an editor [at Envoy in Dublin] and told people all about it. But it never before has happened to me.” ~James Hillman, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 227-228

While getting to know Carl Jung during the last decade of his life, Hillman not only graduated from the Jung Institute, he gained a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Zurich. ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page IX

After traveling first across Africa, he [Hillman] lived with Kate Kempe in Kashmir for almost two years working on a novel, then experienced a “breakdown” at their wedding and ended up seeking analysis at the Jung Institute in Zurich. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page VIII

Hillman’s distance from traditional Jungians eventually became more acute, expressed in his second book, Suicide and the Soul, where he transgressed the taboo of questioning suicide prevention. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page X

as Hillman approaches mid-life, when a young woman from Ohio named Patricia Berry enrolled at the Jung Institute. She became his student, his analysand, eventually his lover and colleague, and then in 1976, his second wife. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page X

Hillman and his compatriots linked this effort toward expanding Jung’s analytical psychology to culture and the imagination, moving psychology away from the dominant scientific/medical model and its focus on the treatment of the isolated individual. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page X

Hillman took over a Jungian journal, Spring, and began to host passionate discussions in Zurich’s bohemian quarter. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page X

After analytical training, he moved from the introverted realm of Zurich’s Jung Institute to the ultra-extraversion of Dallas, Texas. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page XI

Early 1969: Hillman is forced to resign as Director of Studies at the Jung Institute. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page XV

Hillman had studied astrology in the 1950s with Jung’s daughter, Greta Baumann.

Hillman’s wife Kate had four planets in the zodiacal sign of Sagittarius, including her Sun sign. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 16-17

When you come back to Zurich, I think you will no longer be director of studies,” he told Hillman. “What happened while you were away is that you’ve been eased out.” The president of the Jung Institute had finally bowed to the pressure of the furor still swirling over Hillman’s affair with a patient several years before. ~The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 22

James Hillman returned to Zurich, to the house on the hill by the zoo with his wife and four children, to submit his forced resignation to the Jung Institute, with “no practice, no teaching, no work” in sight, and to another relationship that almost no one knew about. ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 23

The previous April of 1968, a Swiss court had ruled that Hillman had misused “in an ‘extreme,’ ‘stubborn’ and persistent way a ‘pronounced relationship of trust’ toward his younger and married patient” and thus “greatly injured” the woman’s American

minister husband, whose demand to the Institute’s governing Curatorium for Hillman’s dismissal was “not without reason.” ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 30

1959: Hillman graduates Summa cum laude from the University of Zurich and receives Analyst’s Diploma from the Jung Institute. ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page XIV

1959-1969: Hillman serves as the first Director of Studies at Zurich’s Jung Institute. ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page XV

Pat [Berry] tells of needing some help to cope with the difficulties of being in relationship with a married man [Hillman], and of having begun to see a woman Jungian analyst. ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 22

Pat [Berry] remembered, who one night told her about Hillman’s affair with a female patient in her twenties, whose clergyman husband had found out about and exposed to the Jung Institute’s hierarchy. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 13

Hillman had to pay the man a fine, although less than half of what the husband had demanded. Pressured by several of the Institute’s patrons in Zurich’s Office of Education, he might not only be ousted by the Institute, he could also be ordered by the police to leave the country entirely. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 30

[John] Layard also suffered from depression. After miraculously surviving a suicide attempt-he shot himself in the mouth-he ended up in analysis with Jung. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 42

Those “senex forces” were marshaled by C. A. Meier’s nine page diatribe against Hillman that included “long quotes from the lawsuit about my character,” which Meier dispatched to all sixty members of the Swiss Society for Analytical Psychology. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 60

Hillman chose not to address the hypocrisy-that Meier was known for having affairs with a number of his patients, including Kate (as described in Volume One). ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 60

[Robert] Hinshaw had taken off to hitch-hike around Europe. Amid the serendipity of those times, one of his lifts gave him a copy of Jung’s Man and His Symbols. Another chance acquaintance soon thereafter told him, “You belong at the Jung Institute in Zurich, I can feel it.” ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 105

It is noteworthy that all of the later Jungian publishers-Murray Stein (Chiron), Robert Hinshaw (Daimon), and Daryl Sharp (Inner City Books) basically started as students or apprentices of Hillman and Spring, and then later set up their own publishing houses, modeled after Spring. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 107

Nonetheless, as [Marvin] Spiegelman knew well from their personal exchanges, a part of Hillman’s psyche remained haunted by the elder Jungians, particularly the ones who’d betrayed or turned against him-like his former analysts, C. A. Meier and Liliane Frei. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 113

“one of the biggest things with my father [James] growing up was his acting out with his female patients; it drove my mother and me crazy. So, I found this [situation] absolutely duplicitous. ~Thomas Kirsch, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 60

When Spring started up, Hillman offered Stein’s wife a job as a bookkeeper and typesetter. Murray, as Pat remembered, “complained of his wife making only a few cents an hour-which was all any of us made, of course. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 78

He [Hillman] would later pioneer a radically new method of re-entering one’s dreams, based on Jung’s active imagination and alchemy. At the time, like Hinshaw, Kapacinskas, and Kugler, Bosnak found the Spring House gatherings a mind-bending experience. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 119-120

The fundamental facts of existence are fantasy images of the psyche. Stick to the image.” ~Carl Jung, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 124

Jung, “The fundamental facts of existence …. “: “The Soul of the World: Exploring Archetypal Psychology,” by Susan C. Roberts, Common Boundary, November/ December 1992.

I believe also that the [C.A.] Meier I hate so much is me, my own academic dried up senex thing. When this book is done, I hope I can turn to something more liquid. That will be the problem in the next years, keeping the liquids flowing. ~James Hillman, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 80

Well, the mosque [Hillman] did to you what it’s supposed to do. It opens up the heavenly vault.’ Years and years later, I wrote a paper called The Azure Vault. ~Henry Corbin, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman Vol. II, Page 187

Rudolf Ritsema informed him of the reaction that Re-Visioning elicited from Mircea Eliade-the renowned mythological scholar whose classes Hillman had attended as a neophyte student at the Jung Institute. Eliade reportedly told Henry Corbin that he considered the book “tres importante et meme revolutionnaire” [very important and even revolutionary]. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 221

In a letter years later, Hillman recalled seeing Eliade when he first arrived in Zurich-“and all the greats were there, including the Jungs, and [Eliade] talked about the Dagon and primitive philosophy. His face was red, he spoke fast and I saw an image of the passionate head, the passion of intellect and it had a tremendous effect on me.” ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 227

As it had been for Jung, who “considered the Eranos conferences the best possible sounding board for his newly developed discoveries and ideas,” so it was for Hillman. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 228

Inspired by Corbin’s view of imagination, in The Thought of the Heart, Hillman described “the thought of the heart as sovereign and noble … forming a beauty in the language of images.” Jungian dialogues in active imagination were thus “a form of prayer. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 235

Besides C. G. Jung and Henry Corbin, a third ‘father’ deserves honoring: Adolf Portmann, the eminent Swiss zoologist whose originality, judgment and inspiration led the Eranos conferences from the early 1960s until his death in [1982). ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 239-240

I could never free myself from the feeling that warm-blooded creatures were akin to us and not just cerebral automata … My compassion for animals did not derive from the Buddhist trimmings of Schopenhauer’s philosophy, but rested on the deeper foundation of a primitive attitude of mind-on an unconscious identity with animals. ~Carl Jung, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 240

[Jung] appeared to me as a powerful ‘natural force,’ possessing the extraordinary capability of raising to consciousness the spiritual ways of functioning in all of us. ~Adolf Portmann, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 240

There is in the psyche some superior power, and if it is not consciously a god, it is the ‘belly’ at least, in St. Paul’s words.” ~Carl Jung, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 295

The university [Yale] was “a treasure house of learning, like Alexandria must have been. Yet it is work with such ill-ease, so little leisure and elegance. Such shame at being high up.” ~James Hillman, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 204

Hillman would publish [Lyn]Cowan’s first book, her Jung Institute thesis on Masochism: A Jungian View. He accompanied her into a bookstore in New York seeking a place for it, calling the book a “radically new approach.” The skeptical store owner asked, “Well, what’s the author’s position?” Cowan recalled Hillman’s quick response: “Submissive.” The two were hastily shown the door. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 209

At Syracuse University, studying under Stanley Hopper who had known Jung,[David] Miller wrote his doctoral dissertation on Aristophanes and Greek religion. By the time he first encountered Hillman at Eranos in 1969, he was as taken by psychology and mythology as theology. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 215

Now here’s what you do. Don’t talk to those people out there. Don’t talk to Corbin, or Scholem, or Portmann. Talk only to dead people. Talk to Jung. Talk to Augustine. Talk to Luther, Erasmus. That’s where the conversation is. ~James Hillman, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 233

After Hillman’s 1973 lecture on “The Dream and the Underworld,” Robbie Bosnak remembered walking up to Aniela Jaffe, part of the Jungian old guard, and exclaiming: “Isn’t this amazing? Isn’t it fantastic?” To which Jaffe replied: “It was very brilliant, but it was one-sided.” ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 245

Two days after you left I [Hillman] received a letter from Dr. [James] Hall offering to present a seminar on dreams here next year to straighten out the confusion of your approach.” Hall was a dogmatic Jungian whose antipathy toward Hillman would only increase. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 259

McConaughey recalled. Hillman had written afterward: “Saw the Pueblo Jung visited, but found the Indians stiffly taciturn, though one old squaw did sing me a traveler’s song to the accompaniment of the drum. It was a fine present.” ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 260

He remembered Hillman walking over to a bookshelf, where he reached for what Doehner thought was “an ancient alchemical text-I, of course, idealized this, it was actually Jung’s book on alchemy-but he opened right to the page of a woman, sitting on a whale and offering her breast dripping with milk.” ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 301

“My main anxiety is loss of soul … the Jungian soul that comes through silence despair sickness meditation and inability. Instead we work, go to the spa, rarely have pain, and dream only on occasion. I can’t find any problems! Except-that. It implies the usual American situation of loss of some dimension without noticing it. Besides, I watch football games on Tv, again and again and again. Still drink wine, sometimes twice a day, and sleep afternoons as before.” ~James Hillman, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 304

Joseph Cambray was drawn to Dallas because of Hillman. Formerly a successful chemistry researcher and later a Jungian analyst with practices in Boston and Providence (elected President in 2008 of the International Association for Analytical Psychology), Cambray ran the bookstall at the Dallas Institute meetings. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 329

“No one in our century-not Freud, not Jung, not Thomas Mann, not Levi Strauss-has so brought a mythic sense of the world back into our daily consciousness [as Campbell],” Hillman was quoted in the New York Times. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 378

That was also Eranos-a place where Jung’s concept of the completeness of life was realized and lived. ~Gershom Scholem, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 382

Among the first courses he [Hillman] took after enrolling at Zurich’s Jung Institute in 1953 was Erich Neumann’s “Great Mother and Her Symbols.” Another was Marie Louise von Franz’s ”Archetypal Patterns in Fairy Tales.” ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 413

Freud and Jung had believed that men feel through their anima or feminine side. “There needs to be a second act that acknowledges that men have a tremendous amount of feeling on their masculine side,” [Robert] Bly once observed, ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 422

Don Shewey wrote: [Robert] Bly was a “kind of dervish, constantly pounding on the poetic landscape … a lion, king of the jungle.” [Michael]Meade was seen as “the leprechaun in the forest” or “like a frog … close to the ground, a proletarian prince.” As for Hillman: “Replace [his] tweedy wardrobe with a cape and staff, and you’d call him a sorcerer or holy fool.” ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 433

“Somehow it was almost a given that we both just thought, nothing could ever stop us in the world. In Jim’s case, I guess this has happened because his reputation now has spread far and wide. When his name may come up with people, I say he’s the inventor of Hillmanism-combining Jung and Freud.” ~J.P. Donleavy, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 488

To Hillman, Jung was a “Child of Hermes”: “Jung’s way of writing psychology seems to have been under the tutelage of Hermes in several ways: the concern for borderline conditions of the psyche; the engagement with psyche’s hermetic secrets, and, third, his hermeneutical research along the borders of psychology, where odd fields touch each other.” ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 492

Following Jung I use the word fantasy-image in the poetic sense, considering images to be the basic givens of psychic life, self-originating, inventive, spontaneous, complete, and organized in archetypal patterns. Nothing is more primary. ~James Hillman, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 495

He [Charles Boer] sent Hillman his own long biographical poem “The Soul of Pierpont Morgan,” along with essays, “which I have filtered, barbarized, stolen, raped, fantasied, mutilated and plagiarized from several of your books.” At the time, Boer was dreaming up a detective novel about a female analyst who solves crimes with the help of Jung. ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 498

According to [James] Hall, [Robert] Duncan didn’t care much for Jung and Jungians, believing Jung viewed angels metaphorically while he saw angels as real. The English poet and critic Kathleen Raine, herself am admirer and friend of Hillman, called Duncan a great “visionary poet.” Hall said, “He lived in mythology. ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 502

[William] Kotzwinkle corresponded with Hillman a few times, sent him a copy of his first book (Elephant Bangs Train) and, while in Zurich researching a novel, dropped by the Jung Institute. ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 517

Jung had already shaped me as a thinker. And other forces had shaped me as a writer. Hillman’s impact on me had to do with the dream world. We analyzed hundreds of dreams together. I still dream of him, always as a powerful figure, but the most powerful dream of him I ever had was when I encountered a caravan in the dream world, tinkling across the desert by night. I went to the head of the caravan and found Hillman there. He was the leader of the caravan. And that’s what he was in life, the leader of a caravan of those who trade in dreams. And I can say that he led me through the dream world with consummate ability. ~William Kozwinkle, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 518-519

Hillman stopped practicing analysis in 1987, coincidentally the year The Exile appeared. “I was one of his last patients. Perhaps the very last, because during our final analytical hour he said, ‘I can’t do this anymore. It almost makes me ill.’ This was a shocking moment for me but I thought I understood. ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 519

We were walking along the street toward the cemetery where Jung is buried and there, in the middle of the street was a perfect rose, wrapped in cellophane. It must have fallen from a florist’s delivery truck, provided by the gods so we’d have something to put on Jung’s grave. ~William Kozwinkle, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 519

[Enrique] Pardo recalled that Hillman, watching a work session, “remarked that the drama and difficulty of ‘following through’ had probably much to do with what is called in Jungian psychology ‘facing shadow,’ the unknown in the actor that the image recognizes.” ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 532

He [Hillman] plays with ideas. He juggles. He’s a dancer and very light on his feet, rhetorically very deft. You don’t want to be in an argument with him on a platform, because it’s very uncomfortable. But it isn’t because of his robust intellect so much as another kind of gift, artistic really. ~Murray Stein, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 534

While going on to study at the Jung Institute in 1950s Zurich, friends would remember Hillman and his American colleagues Marvin Spiegelman and Robert Stein livening up occasions with impromptu dances. Anne Guggenbiihl-Craig, whose own husband Adolf didn’t like to dance, remembered taking the floor with Hillman at a Jungian Congress and being “quite surprised to realize he could dance extremely well. It was a side of him I didn’t expect.” ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 534-535

Hungarian-born Rudolf Laban had described four motion factors based on fundamental psychological attitudes-either resisting or accepting the physical conditions that influence movement. A contemporary of Jung, Laban correlated this hypothesis to the depth psychologist’s four functions of consciousness (sensing, thinking, feeling, and intuiting). ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 538

This was difficult for Hillman, but further parallels between Laban and Jung interested him. Laban had emphasized qualities of exertion and recuperation, which [Debra] McCall related to Jung’s theory of amplification. ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 543

Hillman remembered “being my normal neurotic, fearful self worried about what I should eat the night before I was to be on the stage. But old Joseph Campbell sat down and had a great big steak … a couple of drinks before dinner, black coffee and pie after dinner, and went up to bed and slept soundly.” ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 544

Both were interested in Jungian psychology, and Margot [McClean] considered Jung’s Man and His Symbols an excellent art book. ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 545

But, in the course of his four years at the Jung Institute, he [Hillman] would later join the Spring team, doing some translating of Karl Kerenyi’s books and, with his wife, taking care of the business end of things. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 78

John [Layard] was one of the few people who gave me intellectual recognition and support very early. He was a peculiar genius, highly educated, aristocratic, and brilliant. A real rebel, too, with his own agenda. He was very annoyed with the narrowness of the analytical approach, partly because he was bisexual and Jung had never accepted [that in] him. John was a handsome man, tall with white hair. He liked me very much, and I think he probably had designs on my body, but he did stay in our house on a few occasions in a little guest room out back. His birthday was the same day as Kate’s. ~James Hillman, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 43

Pat [Berry] soon fell into a depression, wondering what she was doing there. But she felt that she’d burned all her bridges. She did find one scintillating lecturer in Marie-Louise von Franz, on the archetypal symbolism in fairy tales. Pat recalled: “She would sit up there on the lecture platform with her legs splayed, her dirty fingernails, and hold forth with such passion and sparkleit was truly exciting. She was the psyche.” ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 8

As Pat [Berry] considered her second semester, Hillman was offering a class on “The Feeling Function” (which became part of a book co-authored with Marie-Louise von Franz, Jungs Typology). ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 8

He [Rafael Lopez-Pedraza] studied with the old guard-learning Jolande Jacobi’s systems for deciphering patients’ paintings and from Marie-Louise von Franz’s seminars “that the psyche has what I call a ‘fairy tale level’ … easily noticed in anyone” ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 32

Hillman asked Marie-Louise von Franz if Spring could publish a couple of her seminar lectures, which became the first printing of her work on fairy tales. According to Pat, von Franz had been searching for someone willing to do this, but “everyone has turned it down because typing and manuscript are in bad shape.” ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 78

“What we got were mainly just typed notes on these lectures from U ma Thomas, one of the women who’d taken the seminars. I laboriously put the notes together and then went back and forth to von Franz’s house in Kusnacht to go over the editing with her. Sitting with von Franz and her dog, I’d say, ‘You said this earlier.’ ‘Well then, I meant it earlier,’ she’d say. Or I’d say, ‘You said it twice.’ ‘Well, I meant it twice,’ she’d respond. That’s what editing von Franz was like.” ~Pat Berry, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 78

Eventually, bringing out three of von Franz’s lecture courses in an English-language paperback would be a momentous event in the Jungian world: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Fairy Tales, The Problem of the Puer Aeternus, and A Psychological Interpretation of The Golden Ass of Apuleius. By the end of the year, Spring was in the process of publishing a new edition of Emma Jung’s classic book, Anima and Animus. ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 79

He [Hillman] also dreamed that Marie-Louise von Franz, whose seminal work on fairy tales he had just published, criticized his editing:

“We had done some stupid little things, but she was picky. She was a dark, rouged, very attractive young girl (25 or so!) And as we talked she and I kept maneuvering our positions to get on the left side of each other, I wanted her on my left and she wanted me on her left.” ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 114

At the Spring House, a wine cellar was being rented for a photo darkroom; Von Franz’s book on fairy tales was being shipped. ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 184

Hillman wrote, “having been the first to produce, not only Jung’s Visions Seminars, but also Freud’s Cocaine Papers, Kerenyi’s works Hermes and Athene in English, as well as seven volumes of Marie-Louise von Franz’s seminars. Spring itself had expanded to a full-size book; it is now … quoted in scholarly works, as well as still being stand-by reading for individuals engaged in depth analysis or pursuing the unicorn along the borderlands.” ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 296-297

We were keeping important books in print, like a mission. He always insisted these had to be high quality in their composition-the paper, the binding, the design. He would refer to von Franz as the last remnant of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but her books were Spring’s bread-and-butter. ~Michael Sipiora, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 299

In the early 1970s, he’d been reading his way through the Jungians-Von Franz, Esther Harding, and Eric Neumann when [William] Kotzwinkle came upon Hillman. “I saw the difference immediately,” he reflected in 2019. ~Dick Russell, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 516

Hillman had studied astrology in the 1950s with Jung’s daughter, Greta Baumann.

Hillman’s wife Kate had four planets in the zodiacal sign of Sagittarius, including her Sun sign. ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Page 16-17

minister husband, whose demand to the Institute’s governing Curatorium for Hillman’s dismissal was “not without reason.” ~Dick Russell, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. II, Page 30