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The episode features a discussion with Michael Sipiora on the political implications of James Hillman's archetypal psychology and the concept of psychological citizenship.

Howling with writer, teacher and archetypal psychologist Michael Sipiora about the political relevance of James Hillman’s archetypal psychology and what it means to be a psychological citizen “Speaking out of the Ancient, Renaissance, and Romantic traditions that animate his archetypal psychology, Hillman calls for each therapist’s room to become a cell of revolution, heresy, and beauty rather than a globule of self-improvement; a place where imagination moves from building castles in sand to constructive visions for the real city; a place of outrage at social injustice rather than adaptation; a place of mourning over ecological destruction rather than of working through depression; a place of shame over failed participation in the present rather shame over past abuses to oneself; and of cosmic involvement rather than of transference and countertransference entanglements.” — Psychological Citizenship & Democracy, Michael Sipiora References: Michael Sipiora, Psychological Citizenship & Democracy James Hillman, City & Soul UE 2, We’ve Had 100 Years of Psychotherapy and the World’s Getting Worse Sheldon Wolin, Fugitive Democracy: And Other Essays Ralph Nader, Civic…

People in this episode

Host: Brian James

Guest: Michael Sipiora

Topics covered

• archetypal psychology
• psychological citizenship
• social justice
• ecological destruction
• democracy
• imagination

Keywords

• James Hillman
• psychological citizenship
• archetypal psychology
• social injustice
• ecological destruction
• democracy

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