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I re-read many interviews given by Hillman in the 80s and in the 90s. He often speaks about an imaginal community of friends loving one another, a polytheistic group banded together by ideas and friendship. Friendship: the great neglected of Psychoanalysis, taken over by Archetypal Psychology.

Kosmos means also discipline, shape, right order: in a certain sense, our roundtable shows a sort of kosmos. We are sitting round a table whose chief is James/King Arthur…

2. North and South
What does Hillman mean when he says that Archetypal Psychology starts in the South and that his ideas come from a Mediterranean fantasy? Maybe also psychological schools obey to a geographic fantasy. So, I kept the heritage of this idea and in 2006 I founded in Sicily the Istituto Mediterraneo di Psicologia Archetipica(IMPA) with Riccardo Mondo
By the way, Hillman has been so often to Italy, particularly to Rome, without fainting… He has been neither afraid nor shy to face Mediterranean history. Regarding the metaphor of the cardinal points, we can compare the fantasies produced by “Northern Psychology” with the ones linked to a “Mediterranean point of view”: North suggests a moralistic, ego-centred psychology, stressing the myth of hero and consequently focusing on the Great Mother, whereas South points out a polytheistic psychology involving an ego low position and “side-effects” – including a vanishing division between self and things – usually ascribed to “Eastern Philosophy”. Therefore, Archetypal Psychology doesn’t need eastern formulations like the Zen ones: it includes them.
3. Polytheism/Enotheism
Mediterranean fantasy involves not only ancient Greece but also Renaissance culture: they are both expression of a polytheistic aesthetic-centred sensitivity (aesthetic is an adjective meaning sensitiveness). Odysseus is called polytropos (a sort of multitasking man…). Artists and philosophers of Renaissance are pansophical, searchers of a whole knowledge, refusing any specialization, acting a polytheistic fantasy. Psychological polytheism unhinges the self-centrality: it involves strong consequences both in personal lives and in therapy.

An interesting version of polytheism is the so called enotheism (F. Schelling, M. Müller), according to which each god is worshipped one at a time. Actually, this perspective gathers both monotheism and polytheism: each temple at a time.

4. Archetypal therapy
Hillman describes the room of the analysis as a revolutionary place. Is it still revolutionary? Can it go on moving towards open-minded solutions? According to the literary theorist Fredric Jameson, known for his studies on Postmodernism, the “story telling” is the main function of human mind. Doesn’t it occur to somebody that the thesis of Healing fiction is very similar? So, an archetypal therapy mainly shoots for developing an increasing capacity to create images. I’m thinking about two “clinical cases” occurred in my practice in the last ten years: two women who found out an artistic skill during the psychotherapy: an authentic skill, so that now they usually take part in exhibitions. One of them has become photographer, the other sculptress. Point out that I don’t take pictures neither sculpt. It was really a maieutic, socratic process: their acorn appeared.
Hillman wrote somewhere: “Psyche only moves by means of ritual”. The ritual is necessary to throw something up; in these cases, it was necessary to reveal their artistic inclinations, to reveal to them Aphrodite as psychè tou kosmou. Archetypal psychotherapy doesn’t judge but loves everything is arising. The so called therapist and the so called patient both say yes to the life as it occurs.

Even psychic fragmentation has its epistrophé rather than being a simple diagnosis: that is the removed primary polytheism. Polytheism is also the theoretical basis of a clinical pluralism and of a clinical opportunism close to Riccardo Mondo ’s idea of variable setting.

As a medical doctor, I also appreciate the emphasis on Dionysian medicine which offers an interesting perspective to a psychosomatic physiopathology: the body is the theatre and the organs are the characters on the stage. Besides, both in a medical and in a psychoanalytical setting, we give importance to how the patient breathes, moves, gets dressed: in one word, to his physiognomic.

5. Religious elements in Archetypal Psychology

Imagination has a religious nature. Psychological faith is faith into soul’s reality.
Let’s think about the role of imagination in Renaissance philosophers of nature, starting from Bernardino Telesio (by the way, Sicilian musician Franco Battiato is writing an Opera about him). The importance of Neoplatonism for these philosophers has been stressed by Hillman in several works. If archetypes are the primary and universal form of psychic working, each personal experience is a secondary phenomenon revealing its primary background, that is the correspondent archetype.

The task of Archetypal Psychology is revealing the archetypal pattern of human behaviour. The work of “de-literalization” brings to “seeing through” everything, so that events get meaningfulness and become experiences. In a certain sense, there is a double reality: one is meaningless, literal, accidental; the other one is hidden and meaningful.
The soul can go back to Primary Reality by epistrophé, a Neoplatonic concept which describes the return to the primary image of each phenomenon. Corbin compares Neoplatonic epistrophé and Muslim ta’wil. We are on the borderline of a Gnostic mysticism involving something like Christian kenosis, a process able to empty ego, ontology, substantiality.
I know Hillman’s worry for keeping an immanent psychology; nevertheless, according to me Archetypal Psychology can lead very close to an apophatic mysticism.

Luigi Turinese – AIPA, Italy, member of the panel with
James Hillman (IRSJA)
Gustavo Barcellos (AJB)
Ann Casement (BAP, JPA)
Kazuhiko Higuchi (AJAJ)
Stan Marlan (PSJA, IRSJA)
Sherry Salman (JPA)
David Tacey (La Trobe University, Australia)

