LESSON NOTES of October 26th 2011

The teacher has read to the class an Umberto Galimberti' s article about James Hillman, who was an American professor and a famous psychologist analyst. He was very important because he suggested new and different approaches in respect to the traditional ones.
"The Hours" of Cunningham is a post modernist text based on an approach to a very famous novel: a modernist novel by Virginia Woolf.
Before to write the article, at the head to the page the journalist explains some key-words to make better understand to readers some concepts.
James Hillman was convinced that today psychology is rooted in society.
He talked about ARCHETYPES: they're the models of the way our psyche works, like the roots of the soul which governs the perspective from which we can see the world.
Furthermore, in Mr. Hillman's opinion, you can't find the discomfort of a person in his infancy, but in the way he has internalized the society he lives.
Assumption of the way of thinking comes from to the idea that what makes someone ‘s authority is not the higher position in the society but the recognition of his/ her importance from a social group. This is the post-modernism concept. So in 1960 the concept of authority, seen as power, was questioned.