By James Hillman, Michael Ventura
This livid, trenchant, and audacious sequence of interrelated dialogues and letters takes a searing examine not just the legacy of psychotherapy, but in addition virtually each point of up to date living--from sexuality to politics, media, the surroundings, and lifestyles within the urban. James Hillman--controversial renegade Jungian psychologist, the fellow Robert Bly has referred to as "the such a lot energetic and unique psychologist we've had in the USA considering the fact that William James"--joins with Michael Ventura--cutting-edge columnist for the L.A. Weekly--to shatter lots of our present ideals approximately our lives, the psyche, and society. Unrestrained, freewheeling, and very good, those highbrow wild males take probabilities, holiday principles, and run purple lighting fixtures to strike on the very middle of our shibboleths and perceptions.
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So it’s exploitative. The notion of transformation that dominates therapy: transform something useless into something useful. VENTURA: A consumer’s ideology. You’re consuming your psyche, as both a consumer and as a carnivore. 34 / We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy HILLMAN: And also as an industrialist: you’re making a profit out of it. VENTURA: And the psyche doesn’t like that. So what it says is, “Okay! ” VENTURA: That’s only if it still likes you—then the psyche gives you another chance with something new to deal with.
Whether they really happened or not, Freud’s point, which is so tremendous, is that it’s what memory does with them that’s important. We don’t know we’re telling stories. And that’s part of the trouble in the training of psychotherapy, that psychotherapists don’t learn enough literature, enough drama, or enough biography. The trainee learns cases and diagnostics—things that do not necessarily open the imagination. So the trainees don’t realize that they’re dealing in fictions. That’s not to say that things aren’t literally real too— VENTURA:—but that what you get in the consulting room is, has to be, someone telling a story.
This is me, because I’m in the same pattern”; it’s recognizable. When you’re with another person you’re out of yourself because the other person is flowing into you and you are flowing into them, there are surprises, you’re a little out of control, and then you think you’re not your real true self. The out of control—that’s the community acting through you. It’s the locus that you’re in, acting through you. 42 / We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy VENTURA: But if you let that go too much, then you’re in Nuremburg Square with your arm up in the air.
