James Hillman's Alchemical Psychology

[Paul Ferguson]

This book collects all of James Hillman's papers on the alchemical imagination from 1980 to the present: "Therapeutic Value of alchemical Language"; "Silver and the White Earth I & II"; "Alchemical Blue and the Unio Mentalis"; "Salt: A Chapter in Alchemical Psychology"; "rudiments: Fire. Ovens, Vessels, Fuel, Glass"; "The Imagination of air and the collapse of alchemy"; "The Yellowing of the Work"; "White Supremacy"; "Concerning the Stone - Alchemical Images of the Goal"; "The Azure Vault: Caelum as Experience."

https://tr.101i.online/book/26311714/4a8...=recommend

[Paul Ferguson]

Review:

"In a new addition to his alchemical reflections, Hillman turns to the images of the work, to the rudiments of fuel and fire, to heat and the vessels of alchemy. It has long been held that the art of fire is a key to and basis of the alchemical work of hastening nature. Psychologically for Hillman this “means learning how to warm, excite, enthuse, ignite, inspire the material at hand” (20). Fire also needs limitation and direction and the vessels of alchemy provide the shapes of imaginal containment."

https://jonwilson9.substack.com/p/colors...-james-439