The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling

James Hillman

Random House, 1996 - 334 Seiten

A journey into the essential mystery at the center of every life--the search for calling--The Soul's Code takes a new look at age-old themes, providing a radical, frequently amusing, and highly accessible path to realization through an extensive array of examples. Hillman ecnourages readers to discover the "blueprints" particular to their individual lives, certain that there is more to life than can be explained by genetics or environment.

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What set of factors most influence the course of an individual human life? Nature? Nurture? The choices a person makes, including one's intimate relationships? Or is it the complex interplay of all of ...

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Inhalt

• I: 3
• III: 41
• IV: 63

Autoren-Profil

James Hillman was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey on April 12, 1926. He attended the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University for two years before joining the Navy's Hospital Corps in 1944. He studied English literature in Paris at the Sorbonne and graduated with a degree in mental and moral science from Trinity College in Dublin. In 1953, he moved to Zurich and enrolled at the C. G. Jung Institute. In 1959, he became the director of studies at the institute and stayed in that position for the next 10 years. He wrote over 20 books including Suicide and the Soul, Re-Visioning Psychology, and The Soul's Code. He died due to complications of bone cancer on October 27, 2011 at the age of 85.

Bibliografische Informationen

• Titel: The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling
• Autor/in: James Hillman
• Verlag: Random House, 1996
• Original von: University of Michigan
• Digitalisiert: 2. Okt. 2008
• ISBN: 0679445226, 9780679445227
• Länge: 334 Seiten