Umberto Galimberti remembers sir James Hillman, a famous American psychologist who died two days ago. Hillman used to live in Europe (he studied in Dublin and Zurich) where he had the occasion to know Carl Jung’s theories. He founded a movement focussed on archetypal psychology: one trying to recognize all fantasies and myths that shape and are shaped by our psychological lives.

With his theory the psychologist overcame his master, suggesting another approach to psychoanalysis. Indeed, according to Hillman, the patients has to go back to  archetypes to become more and more aware. 

Archetypes can be considered as the deep way our psyche works, the roots of our soul. Archetypes drive our perspective and the way we see the world.

Far from Freud’s theories, Hillman thought the uneasiness of man is not to be searched for in his past, but rather in the way he internalizes the world that surround him, because everybody lives with other people, animal, plants, buildings …

The scholar uses the expression “anima mundi”. Our society, he states, does no seem to have a soul anymore. Also man does not live positive relationship between men,, he does not seem to have a heart as Greek people had.