James Hillman, The Dream and the Underworld

Part 3 of 4.
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.