Have you ever tried to understand what the psychological method of "discovering and finding, or figuring out" is based on? In
Oedipus Variations, James Hillman takes on the Oedipal idea of psychoanlaysis and its father, Freud. He exposes analysis and its myth of the search for identity which is still with us, is still blinding us, is still trying to turn people into Oedipus on both sides of the analytical couch.
Karl Kerényi explores the variations of the ancient myth, along with its more dramatic versions, from Seneca to T.S. Eliot.
James Hillman is a renegade Jungian, worldwide lecture and cultural critic, and leading figure of Archetypal Psychology. The author of A Terrible Love of War, The Soul's Code, The Force of Character, and the Pulitzer-nominated Re-Visioning Psychology has received various honors and awards for his original approach to psychotherapy. Of his more than twenty books, Spring Publications has published Healing Fictions, Anima, Loose Ends, Archetypal Psychology, Suicide and the Soul, Insearch, Oedipus Variations (with Karl Kerényi), The Thought of the Heart and the Soul of the World, Inter Views, and Lectures on Jung’s Typology. He lives in Connecticut.