Animal Presences

This volume includes the major Eranos lecture "The Animal Kingdom in the Human Dream," and Hillman's contributions to the out-of-print bestiary, Dream Animals (with Margot McLean), as well as other essays and conversations on the animal theme.

“Mention -Book News, February 2009”

The pioneering imaginative psychology of James Hillman that soon will span five decades has entered cultural history, affecting lives and minds in a wide range of fields. For the creativity of his thinking, the originator of Archetypal Psychology and author of A Terrible Love of War; The Soul's Code; and The Force of Character has received many honors, including the Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic. He has held distinguished lectureships at Yale, Princeton, Chicago, and Syracuse Universities, and his books have been translated into some twenty languages. The American public showed its appreciation of his approach to psychology by placing his book, The Soul's Code, at the top of the bestseller list of serious works of nonfiction. Of his many books, Spring

Publications has published Anima, Loose Ends, Archetypal Psychology:

A Brief Account, Pan and the Nightmare, Suicide and the Soul,

Insearch, Oedipus Variations (with Karl Kerenyi), The Thought of the

Heart and the Soul of the World, Inter Views, and Lectures on Jung's

Typology (with Marie-Louise von Franz). He lives in Connecticut.

Since the 1980s James Hillman, the best-selling author and founder of Archetypal Psychology has written and lectured extensively on the presence of animals in our conscious and unconscious lives. Volume 9 of the Uniform Edition of the Writings of James Hillman unites, for the first time, his papers and lectures on the subjects of animals, including "Animal Kingdom in the Human Dream" (1982), "Dream Animals" (1997), "Culture and the Animal Soul" (1994/1997), and "Learning from Animals" (1999).

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