James Hillman Chronology of Events
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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 H!llman is born in an Atlantic City hotel room.
Summer 1936: H!llman takes a cross-country auto trip with his brother and other students.
September 1939-February 1943: H!llman attends high school in Atlantic City.
Summer 1942: H!llman travels to Mexico City to study Spanish, begins chronicling his life in letters to his family.
February 1943-June 1944: H!llman attends Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., works part-time as a newsroom copy boy for a CBS radio station.
June 1944: H!llman joins the Navy.
Summer 1945: H!llman’s introduction to the therapeutic, tending to blind veterans of World War Two, as part of the Navy Hospital Corps.
June 1946: H!llman accompanies his parents to Europe, becomes correspondent for American Forces Network in occupied Germany.
Early 1947: H!llman enrolls at the Sorbonne in Paris on the GI Bill.
Spring 1947: H!llman meets Kate Kempe at Paris club, falls madly in love. Hillman spends time with philosopher George Santayana.
November 1948: H!llman enrolls at Trinity College, Dublin. Becomes friends with future novelist J. P. Donleavy. Suffering from tuberculosis, spends several months at sanitarium in Switzerland.
1949: H!llman becomes associate editor for Envy magazine, Dublin.
December 1950: Hillman graduates from Trinity College with MA in philosophy.
1951: H!llman travels with Kate and his friend Doug Wilson to Africa.
Summer 1951: H!llman 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: H!llman marries Kate in Stockholm.
Spring 1953: H!llman and Kate enroll at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich.
1955: The H!llmans’ first child, Julia, is born.
April 1956: Daughter Carola is born.
1959: H!llman graduates Summa cum laude from the University of Zurich and receives Analyst’s Diploma from the Jung Institute.
1959-1969: H!llman serves as the first Director of Studies at Zurich’s Jung Institute.
1960: H!llman’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: H!llman goes on lecture tour in America with Adolf Guggenbiihl-Craig.
October 1964: H!llman gives new paper on “Betrayal” in London.
1965: H!llman’s second book, Suicide and the Soul, is published.
Mid-1960s: H!llman 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 H!llman.
1966: H!llman is invited to be among the lecturers at the prestigious Eranos conference on Lago Maggiore, presenting “On Psychological Creativity.”
1967: H!llman’s third book, In Search: Psychology and Religion, is published.
Fall 1968: H!llman accepts an invitation to teach at the University of Chicago, bringing his family along.
Early 1969: H!llman 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 H!llman, Page xiii-xv
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