
08/01/2025
"To heal the symptom, we must heal the person, and to heal the person we must first heal the story in which the person has imagined himself." (J.Hillman).
We need bigger stories to inform our personal narrative and interrelationships: "And instead of imagining that I am dysfunctional, my family is dysfunctional, you realize what R. D. Laing said long ago and Freud, of course, too: it is the civilization which is dysfunctional. The society is dysfunctional. The political process is dysfunctional. And we have to work on cures that are beyond my cure. That's revolution." (Hillman, We've Had a Hundred Years.., pp. 218-219)
Painting by Kathleen Hudson of Lexington,