Conversing with James Hillman : Alchemical psychology

Includes bibliographical references and index.

About James Hillman -- Preface (Robert Sardello) -- Introduction (Joanne H. Stroud) -- Excerpt from The Alchemy of Psychology (James Hillman) -- A blue fire: James Hillman and his planets (Jean Hinson Lall) -- The azure vault: Alchemy and the cosmological imagination (Stanton Marlan) -- Cosmologies of the soul: Astrology and alchemy (Saffron Rossi) -- Alchemical meltdown: Ishmael's transformation in the vessel of affection (Dennis Patrick Slattery) -- In the fire all is transformed and made imperishable (Joanne H. Stroud) -- The impure salt (Patricia Berry) -- Stoned: The goal of alchemy and psychotherapy (David L. Miller) -- City as stone (Gail Thomas) -- Romancing the stone (Robert Sardello) -- The alchemy of sugar (Gustavo Barcellos) -- On the alchemy of male desire: Femininity as totem and taboo (Scott D. Churchill) -- Pain and the salt of the earth (Robert Kugelman) -- Chinese alchemy (Natasha Stroud) -- The question concerning JH and technology (Michael S. Sipiora) -- Caveat lector: The alchemical perils of reading Hillman (Scott Becker) -- The ascentionism of fire in artificial intelligence (Glen Slater) -- References -- Index

The 2016 James Hillman Symposium took as its subject Hillman’s Alchemical Psychology, volume 5 of the Uniform Edition, a study of the transformative processes suggested by the arcane alchemical processes that were adapted in late life by Jung as a basis of understanding depth psychology. Hillman carries this idea forward, arguing that the images and language of alchemy provide a much more valid, less abstract picture of human nature. With its colors and minerals, alchemy teaches, in Hillman’s words, “an aesthetic psychology.”

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