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The Mirrors
The majority of our mental load and emotional labor as modern-day mothers comes from constantly trying to piece together some semblance of a village…grieving this soul crushing loss…We hugely underestimate the weight of villagelessness on mothers.
— Beth Berry
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…James Hillman wanted to give us with this book the circumstantial proof of the existence and ways of operation of the daimon. And he chose an unusual and very effective way, that is to use as examples, not of dark clinical cases but the fate of characters that every reader knows: from Judy Garland to John Lennon and Tina Turner, from Truman Capote to Quentin Tarantino and Woody Allen, from Hannah Arendt to Richard Nixon…Through this infusion of eloquent and paradigmatic stories Hillman has managed to make us understand that if psychology has proven itself unable to explain the deepest choices that decide the lives of all of us it is precisely because he had lost contact with the daimon.
— Adelphi ed
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Contemporary psychology irritates me a lot with its simplistic ideas about human life and its emptiness. In the cosmology behind psychology there is no reason for anyone to exist or do anything.
— James Hillman
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