James Hillman, The Dream and the Underworld

Chapter 3, “Psyche*,*” pp. 45–67. We will take up this chapter in four sessions—July 3 and 31, August 7 and 21.

To know the psyche at its basic depths, for a true depth psychology, one must go to the underworld [46]. Being in the underworld means psychic being, being psychological, where soul comes first … Underworld images are…about the soul, how it exists in and for itself beyond life. [47]. What is most dead and buried in each of us is the culture’s neglect of Death [67]. —J.H.