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| | James Hillman/ New Kabbalah Website |
 | | Hillman's goal, which can be described as "mystical" amounts to a radical departure from not only the medical model of psychoanalysis but also from those humanistic models which, having rejected the metaphor of "cure," continue to entertain notions of self-improvement, self-actualization, well-being, understanding or enlightenment as goals for treatment or therapy (Moore, 1991). |
 | | Hillman implies that there are times when we must give in to own thanatic urges, or at least recognize their prepotency: "the disease which the experience of death cures" he tells us "is the rage to live". |
 | | Hillman, whose views, are, in effect, a series of radical (and dialectical) paradoxes fails to recognize the debt that he (and all dynamic psychologists) have to the philosopher who argued that all of our beliefs involve their contradictions as part of their very essence. |
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