James Hollis

Satürn, gücünü elinden alacaklar diye çocuklarını yiyen kadim Roma tanrısıydı. Tarih boyunca erkekler Satürn’ün mirasının psikolojik ve ruhsal yükü altında ezilmiş, otoritenin bozulması nedeniyle acı çekmişlerdir. Kadınlardan ve diğer erkeklerden duydukları korku yüzünden hem kendilerini hem de başkalarını yaralamışlardır.The Middle From Misery to Meaning in Midlife (Inner City, 1993) adlı kitabın da yazarı olan James Hollis, Satürn’ün Gölgesi Altında’da bu sorunları ele alıyor ve erkeklere kişisel bütünlük duygularını geri kazanmaları konusunda somut çözümler öneriyor.Erkekler kadar kadınlar da bu kitabı okumaya değer bulacaklar; çalışma, erkeklerin kalplerinde taşıdıkları sırları açığa çıkarıp açıklamakla yetinmiyor, ataerkilliğin en kötü etkilerinden kurtulmak için hepimizin yapması gerekenlere de zengin bir bakış açısı sunuyor.James Hollis, Ph.D., Zürih’teki C.G. Jung Enstitüsü’nden mezun oldu. Kuzey Amerika’da mitoloji ve din üzerine sayısız konferans düzenleyen yazar, genellikle erkek meselelerine ve ortayaş dönemlerine değinir. Hem Philadelphia’da hem de yaşadığı yer olan Linwood, New Jersey’de özel klinikleri bulunmaktadır.

"The author's challenge is compassionate and inspired. He wants us to succeed." -Psychological Perspectives A timely and thought-provoking corrective to the generalized fantasies about relationships that permeate Western culture. Here is a challenge to greater personal responsibility, a call for individual growth as opposed to seeking rescue through others.

What does it really mean to be a grown up in today’s world? We assume that once we “get it together” with the right job, marry the right person, have children, and buy a home, all is settled and well. But adulthood presents varying levels of growth, and is rarely the respite of stability we expected. Turbulent emotional shifts can take place anywhere between the age of thirty-five and seventy when we question the choices we’ve made, realize our limitations, and feel stuck— commonly known as the “midlife crisis.” Jungian psycho-analyst James Hollis believes it is only in the second half of life that we can truly come to know who we are and thus create a life that has meaning. In Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life , Hollis explores the ways we can grow and evolve to fully become ourselves when the traditional roles of adulthood aren’t quite working for us, revealing a new way of uncovering and embracing our authentic selves. Offering wisdom to anyone facing a career that no longer seems fulfilling, a long-term relationship that has shifted, or family transitions that raise issues of aging and mortality, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life provides a reassuring message and a crucial bridge across this critical passage of adult development.

Why do so many go through so much disruption in their middle years? Why then? Why do we consider it to be a crisis? The Middle Passage presents us with an opportunity to reexamine our lives and to ask: "Who am I apart from my history and the roles I have played?" It is an occasion for redefining and reorienting the personality, a necessary rite of passage between the extended adolescence of the first adulthood and our inevitable appointment with old age and mortality.The Middle Passage addresses the following issues: How did we acquire our original sense of self? What are the changes that herald the Middle Passage? How does one revision the sense of self? What is the relationship between Jung's concept of individuation and our commitment to others? What attitudes and behavior support individuation and help us move from misery to meaning?This book shows how we may travel the Middle Passage consciously, thereby rendering our lives more meaningful and the second half of life immeasurably richer.--back cover

An Invitation to Listen to Your Soul’s CallingHow do you define "growing up"? Does it mean you achieve certain cultural benchmarks―a steady income, paying taxes, marriage, and children? Or does it mean leaving behind the expectations of others and growing into the person you were meant to be? If you find yourself in a career, place, relationship, or crisis you never foresaw or that seems at odds with your beliefs about who you are, it means your soul is calling on you to reexamine your path.With Living an Examined Life, James Hollis offers an essential guidebook for anyone at a crossroads in life. Here this acclaimed author guides you through 21 areas for self-inquiry and growth, challenging you • Recover Personal Authority―how to stop living in response to the expectations placed on you• Choose Meaning Over Happiness―why seeking truth instead of entertaining distractions ultimately leads to greater fulfillment• Exorcise the Ghosts of the Past That Bind You―how the voices that haunt you can lead you to grow• Bestow Love on the Unlovable Parts of You―recovering the guiding force concealed in your Shadow• Construct a Mature Spirituality―the five essential elements of integrating meaning and mystery into your life• Seize Permission to Be Who You Really Are―the challenge of fully showing up for your lifeWith his trademark eloquence and insight, Dr. Hollis offers Living an Examined Life to inspire you toward a life of personal authority, integrity, and fulfillment. "It is my hope that this book will be a tool to recover your respect for that which abides deeply within," writes Dr. Hollis. "You will not be spared disappointment or suffering. But you can know the depth and dignity of an authentic journey, of being a real player in your time on this turning planet, and your life will become more interesting, taking you deeper than ever before."

Is the purpose of life to achieve happiness? Who does not long to arrive some distant day at that sunlit meadow where we may abide in pure contentment? In reality we know life is not like that; our road is often dreary, the way unclear. Much of the time we are lost in the dismal states of guilt, grief, betrayal, doubt, depression, anger, terror and the like. Is this all we can hope for?Perhaps not, says this author. The Jungian perspective, by encompassing both the meadow and the bog, asserts that the goal of life is not happiness but meaning. And meaning, though it may not be all sunlight and blossoms, is real. Swamplands of the Soul explores the quicksands where we have all floundered. It lights a beacon by showing what they mean in terms of our individual journey and the engendering of soul. For it is precisely where we encounter the gravitas of life that we also uncover its purpose, its dignity and its deepest meaning.

The celebrated author of Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life delivers a unique look at happiness, sharing a Jungian approach to finding a fearless, authentic path. Why are we here? What is the meaning of existence? What truly matters the most in life? To even begin to answer these questions, we must start by exploring our own internal ideals, values, and beliefs. Presenting the unique perspective of respected analyst and author James Hollis, Ph.D., What Matters Most helps readers learn to appreciate (even be amazed by) events unfolding within, even as the external world creates constant struggles. Taking a fresh look at the concept of happiness, Hollis uses a warm, accessible tone to encourage readers to learn to tolerate ambiguity, embrace growth rather than security, respect the power of Eros, engage spiritual crises, and acknowledge the shadow of mortality. Providing inspiring wisdom and personal reflections to address our deepest worries, What Matters Most yields far more than mere self-help clichés. Instead, Hollis guides readers in uncovering the heart of the matter, discovering what it means to truly live life to its fullest, most meaningful state—as fully engaged citizens of the world.

Working with the Shadow is not working with evil, per se. It is working toward the possibility of greater wholeness. We will never experience healing until we can come to love our unlovable places, for they, too, ask love of us. How is it that good people do bad things? Why is our personal story and our societal history so bloody, so repetitive, so injurious to self and others? How do we make sense of the discrepancies between who we think we are—or who we show to the outside world—versus our everyday behaviors? Why are otherwise ordinary people driven to addictions and compulsions, whether alcohol, drugs, food, shopping, infidelity, or the Internet? Why are interpersonal relationships so often filled with strife? Exploring Jung’s concept of the Shadow—the unconscious parts of our self that contradict the image of the self we hope to project--Why Good People Do Bad Things guides you through all the ways in which many of our seemingly unexplainable behaviors are manifestations of the Shadow. In addition to its presence in our personal lives, Hollis looks at the larger picture of the Shadow at work in our culture—from organized religion to the suffering and injustice that abounds in our modern world. Accepting and examining the Shadow as part of one’s self, Hollis suggests, is the first step toward wholeness. Revealing a new way of understanding our darker selves, Hollis offers wisdom to help you to acquire a more conscious conduct of your life and bring a new level of awareness to your daily actions and choices.

A Masterful Author and Jungian Analyst Examines the Qualities That Bring Meaning to Our Human Journey.What is it that brings meaning to your life? Our culture tells us to seek wealth, power, prestige, or even enrollment in someone else’s idea of a worthy cause—yet where do we turn when these paths fail to fulfill our need for purpose? “When the old stories and beliefs that once defined us have played out and grown exhausted,” teaches Dr. James Hollis, “our task is to access our inner compass, the promptings of the psyche that help us find our way through the complex thickets of choice.”A Life of Meaning is Hollis’s profound exploration of the nature of meaning and how we can orient toward it or away from it with the choices we make. Hollis offers an examination of myth, literature, historical figures, and the wisdom of depth psychology that provides penetrating insight into the search for purpose. Join him to • How even cherished narratives splinter and lose potency over time• Why dreams are windows into your internalized patterns and base assumptions• How to excavate and understand your earliest, most foundational beliefs• The power of fear and how it shapes unconscious reactions• Recognizing and rising to the occasion of a “summons of the soul”• How to anchor yourself during times of uncertainty and change• Why it’s important to be aware of and closely examine your shadow• How to reckon with old feelings of shame, betrayal, resentment, and regretWe all have to discover our own sense of meaning. No one else can do it for us. In A Life of Meaning, Hollis offers no easy answers or feel-good certainties—instead, he shares his most valuable questions and reflections to help you find the courage, persistence, and inspiration to navigate your own odyssey. “It’s humbling work, this process of getting our lives back,” he teaches. “Yet I submit to you that’s worth the price of the ticket, for in the journey our lives become ever more luminous.”

Have you ever looked at your career, your relationships, or your role in life and wondered, “Is this why I’m really here?” If so, then you are ready for your “midlife crisis”―the pivotal time when you have the opportunity to become the person your soul seeks to be.“When the illusions of our youth begin to crumble,” explains James Hollis, “we reach a turning point that the poet Dante called the ‘dark wood.’” With Through the Dark Wood , this author and Jungian analyst reveals the steps we all must take on our road to true maturity, meaning, and fulfillment.When the Second Half of Life BeginsHow do you know when you’ve reached the “second half ”of life? According to Hollis, the first sign comes when you feel dissatisfied by where you are today―and hear a call from within to live a more purposeful life. This marks the collision between your “False Self,” created from the expectations of others, and your instinctive “True Self.”Drawing upon his experiences with hundreds of clients, Hollis provides an essential map for traversing the universal challenges of midlife, such as building genuine relationships, cultivating a mature spirituality, and letting go of old beliefs that no longer serve you.An Invaluable Guide through the Challenges of Midlife“The second half of life isn’t about looking for easy answers,” James Hollis says. “It’s about honestly exploring the questions that bring richness and value to your life.” With Through the Dark Wood , this penetrating thinker shares a lifetime of insights about how to navigate your life’s most turbulent passages―and emerge from the darkness wiser, stronger, and in greater harmony with your soul’s purpose.

What does life ask of us, and how are we to answer that summons?Are we here just to propagate the species anew?Do any of us really believe that we are here to make money and then die?Does life matter, in the end, and if so, how, and in what fashion?What guiding intelligence weaves the threads of our individual biographies?What hauntings of the invisible world invigorate, animate, and direct the multiple narratives of daily life?In Hauntings, James Hollis considers how we are all governed by the presence of invisible forms spirits, ghosts, ancestral and parental influences, inner voices, dreams, impulses, untold stories, complexes, synchronicities, and mysteries which move through us, and through history. He offers a way to understand them psychologically, examining the persistence of the past in influencing our present, conscious lives and noting that engagement with mystery is what life asks of each of us. From such engagements, a deeper, more thoughtful, more considered life may come.

Ask yourself, 'When do I feel most real?' What comes up on the screen? All of us have had moments in our lives when we felt whole or wholly present, or experienced a sense of well-being, an intuition of a higher order of reality. Such moments are transitory, alas, and cannot be summoned up by will or mind or right conduct, just as the person who seeks humility finds more and more that pride and one-sidedness push the goal further and further away. - excerpt from Creating A Life

What guides us when our world is changing? Discover the path to deeper meaning and purpose through depth psychology and classical thought.How did we get to this crossroads in history? And will we make it through—individually and as a species? “We all assumed that learning, rationality, and good intentions would prove enough to bring us to the promised land,” says James Hollis. “But they haven’t and won’t. Yet what we also do not recognize sufficiently is that this human animal is equipped for survival. In time, as we have seen of life’s other insolubles, we grow large enough to contain what threatened to destroy us.”Dr. Hollis’s readers know him as a penetrating thinker who brings profound insight and sophistication to the inner journey. In Living Between Worlds, he broadens his lens to encompass the relationship between our inner struggles and the rapidly shifting realities of modern human existence. You will learn to invoke the tools of depth psychology, classical literature, philosophy, dream work, and myth, to gain access to the resources that supported our ancestors through their darkest hours. Through these paths of inner exploration, you will access your “locus of knowing”—an inner wellspring of deep resilience beyond the ego, always available to guide you back to the imperatives of your soul.Though many of the challenges of our times are unique, the path through for us personally and collectively will always rely on our measureless capacity for creativity, wisdom, and connection to a reality larger than ourselves. Here you will find no easy answers or pat reassurances. Yet within the pages of Living Between Worlds, you will encounter causes for hope. “We can find what supports us when nothing supports us,” Hollis teaches. “By bearing the unbearable, we go through the desert to arrive at a nurturing oasis we did not know was there.”

A Masterful Author and Jungian Analyst Examines the Qualities that Bring Meaning to Our Human JourneyWhat is it that brings meaning to your life? Our culture tells us to seek wealth, power, prestige, or even enrollment in someone else’s idea of a worthy cause—yet where do we turn when these myths fail to fulfill our need for purpose? “When the old stories and beliefs that once defined us have played out and grown exhausted,” teaches Dr. James Hollis, “our task is to access our inner compass, the promptings of the psyche that help us find our way through the complex thickets of choice.” Investigate the Mystery of Your Existence Through the Portal of Depth PsychologyA Life of Meaning is a profound audio exploration of the nature of meaning and how we can orient toward it or away from it with the choices we make. Through examination of myth, literature, historical figures, and the wisdom of depth psychology, Hollis provides penetrating insight into the search for purpose. Here you’ll explore:• How our story-seeking mind forms our sense of meaning from early experience• Why these early stories inevitably fail as we are called to our own path• Skillfully accessing the inner oracle of your dreams• Shadow work—where we fear to tread, yet where our greatest treasures may be found• Missing the mark—examining the archetype of the Seven Deadly Sins through a psychological lens• Dispelling the “ghosts” that haunt our memories and possess our psyche• Finding personal resilience in times of internal and external change• Living more fully in the presence of our mortality• Guidance for coming into alignment with your soul’s abiding quest for meaning at any stage of your lifeNobody else can provide you with a sense of meaning. Anyone who tries is attempting to enroll you in their own version. In A Life of Meaning, James Hollis offers no easy answers or feel-good certainties—instead, he shares his most valuable questions and reflections to help you find the courage, persistence, and inspiration to navigate your own odyssey. “It’s humbling work, this process of getting our lives back,” he teaches. “Yet I submit to you that's worth the price of the ticket, for in the journey our lives become ever more luminous.”

Over the years James Hollis has offered us many a feast, and we have grown to appreciate the nourishment of their unique mixtures of bitter and sweet. Here he shares our boat, navigating the questions without charts that haunt us all. This is not a book of revealed truths. Rather it surrenders to the questions, guided only by whatever insight, endurance and energy each of us may have. He acknowledges the uniqueness and value of each individual life journey, sharing his personal experience only so that we can find our own understanding.

The Broken Mirror: Refracted Visions of Ourselves explores the need to know ourselves more deeply, and the many obstacles that stand in our way. The various chapters illustrate internal obstacles such as intimidation by the magnitude of the project, the readiness to avoid the hard work, and gnawing self-doubt, but also provide tools to strengthen consciousness to take these obstacles on. Additional essays address living in haunted houses, the necessity of failure, and the gift and limits of therapy.Most of all, Hollis addresses the resources we all have within, or can obtain for ourselves, to lead a more abundant life and to step into larger possibilities for our unfolding journeys.

Also available in an open-access, full-text edition at http://txspace.tamu.edu/bitstream/han...“What we wish to know, and most desire, remains unknowable and lies beyond our grasp.” With these words, James Hollis leads readers to consider the nature of our human need for meaning in life and for connection to a world less limiting than our own.In The Archetypal Imagination, Hollis offers a lyrical Jungian appreciation of the archetypal imagination. He argues that without the human mind’s ability to form energy-filled images that link us to worlds beyond our rational and emotional capacities, we would have neither culture nor spirituality. Drawing upon the work of poets and philosophers, Hollis shows the importance of depth experience, meaning, and connection to an “other” world. Just as humans have instincts for biological survival and social interaction, we have instincts for spiritual connection as well. Just as our physical and social needs seek satisfaction, so the spiritual instincts of the human animal are expressed in images we form to evoke an emotional or spiritual response, as in our dreams, myths, and religious traditions.The author draws upon the work of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies to elucidate the archetypal imagination in literary forms. To underscore the importance of incarnating depth experience, he also examines a series of paintings by Nancy Witt.With the power of the archetypal imagination available to all of us, we are invited to summon courage to take on the world anew, to relinquish outmoded identities and defenses, and to risk a radical re-imagining of the larger possibilities of the world and of the self.

PUBLISHED BY INNER CITY BOOKS 1995- WRITTEN BY JAMES HOLLIS

Life can often feel like a distraction, dividing us not only from others but also from ourselves. Yet even within the cacophony of life, deep down you can intuit your own soul, that part of you that knows you better than you know yourself, and that offers moments of solace.Our disconnect from this inner source of guidance leads to self-doubt, but bestselling author and Jungian analyst James Hollis provides a reminder that we carry within what we’re so anxiously looking for from a crazed world. “Behind the noise and beneath the surface, something in the soul of each of us cries out,” says Hollis. “While we may be distracted from this summons, the soul keeps asking that we pay attention.” These summons come to us through symptoms, dreams, and restless nights. Here, Hollis reveals tools we can utilize to engage in a conversation with the soul.In this collection of essays, Hollis helps us to reflect deeply on questions that explore and celebrate life's challenges in our evolving world, including how happiness is attained, how to approach our dreams, the divided soul of America, our fear and fascination with death, and the conflict between good and evil. Using analytic psychology as a vehicle for the recovery of a spiritual life in a secular age, you’ll find inspiration for reconnecting with deep wisdom, bringing renewed purpose and dignity to this mysterious journey called life.

Tales told by shadowy elders around ancient campfires offered both explanation and comfort. Life hasn’t changed that our dependence on explanation and comfort still lies just under our busy ambition and constant yearning. Most of the time, the basic assumptions of our early years were so viscerally absorbed that we have never made them articulate, and therefore never had any way to evaluate their relevance for us now. What if they are outdated? Immature? Beside the point?

Reflections on the Journey We Call Life summarizes a lifetime of observing, engaging, and exploring why we are here, in service to what, and what life asks of us. These eleven essays, all written recently, examine how we understand ourselves, and often we have to reframe that understanding, the nature and gift of comedy, the imagination, desire, as well as our encounters with narcissism, and aging. James Hollis, Ph.D., a Jungian Analyst in Washington, D.C., explores the roadblocks we encounter and our on-going challenge to live our brief journey with as much courage, insight, and resolve as we can bring to the table.

What drives male psychology? What are his fears, his shadow, his aspirations? In this course for men and women, Dr. Hollis explores the terrible Saturnian legacy which man bears and discover what he can learn about himself (or we learn about him) to help him in the healing process.

Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts"James Hollis's challenge is compassionate and inspired. He wants us to succeed." -Psychological Perspectives."His work makes us circle back on ourselves with new curiosity about our personal myths." -Round Table Review.The Eden Project is a timely and thought-provoking corrective to the generalized fantasies about relationships that permeate our culture. This is not a practical guide on how to fix a relationship, but rather a challenge to greater personal responsibility in relationships, a call for individual growth as opposed to seeking rescue through others.Partial List of The Lost Acquiring a Sense of SelfGoing The Eden ProjectEros, Projection and the Magical OtherLove, Relationship and Soul Coupling and UncouplingBecoming Conscious of Eros WoundsEros in OrganizationsThe Spindrift Gaze Toward ParadiseJames Hollis, Ph. D., has a Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. He is the acclaimed author of four previous books in this series, including The Middle From Misery to Meaning in Midlife (1993) and Swamplands of the New Life in Dismal Places (1996). He lives and practices in Houston, where he is the Director of the C.G. Jung Educational Center.

Following the philosophy of psychiatrist Carl Jung, this perceptive book teaches how to acquire a higher level of consciousness concerning daily decisions so that one can be more in tune with the complexity of both the world and other people. The typical question of why bad things happen to good people is also turned on its head in this study, which instead asks Why do good people do horrible things? Dissecting the answer, this complete analysis explains that accepting the "Shadow"—those unconscious parts of the self that one projects to the world—as a part of a person’s identity is the first step towards complete personal understanding. This guide also cautions, however, that this dark side must be controlled, or it will ultimately cause good people to fall into bad behaviors. Siguiendo la filosofía del psiquiatra Carl Jung, este libro perceptivo enseña a adquirir un mayor nivel de conciencia de las acciones y decisiones cotidianas al fin de estar en sintonía con la complejidad del mundo y de otras personas. Este estudio trata en una manera nueva la pregunta típica de por qué las buenas personas experimentan las cosas malas con la pregunta Por qué las buenas personas hacen malas cosas? Analizando esta respuesta, esta análisis completa explica que acceptando la Sombra—aquellas partes inconscientes del yo que contradicen la imagen que la persona muestra al mundo—como parte del ser es el primer paso hacia la totalidad completa. Esta guía también advierte, sin embargo, que este lado oscuro deba ser controlado, o últimamente causará que la buena gente actúe mal.

We worden allemaal beïnvloed of beheerst door allerlei onzichtbare maar alom aanwezige krachten die ons zo nu en dan kunnen dienen, maar vaker in de weg blijken staan. Denk aan (voor)ouderlijke invloeden, innerlijke stemmen, dromen, impulsen, complexen en geheimen die ons leven vaak meer sturen dan we willen, kunnen en durven toegeven. Deze spookverschijningen dwalen door ons en de geschiedenis heen.James Hollis maakt in 'Niet langer achtervolgd door het verleden' duidelijk hoe belangrijk het is om tot je door te laten dringen hoe je erdoor geleid wordt. Het verleden blijft je namelijk hardnekkig achtervolgen als je geen aandacht geeft aan wat je dwarszit en tegenhoudt.Wie deze onzichtbare wereld durft te ‘zien’ en in het reine komt met wat was, gaat op weg naar een bewuster en meer vervuld leven. We zijn in staat om storende invloeden te weerstaan en worden niet langer achtervolgd door het verleden.

Os Pantanais da Alma explora as areias movediças onde todos nos debatemos. Ele traz uma luz mostrando o que eles significam sob o aspecto da nossa jornada individual e da causação da alma. Porque é precisamente onde encontramos o gravitas da vida que também descobrimos seu propósito, sua dignidade e seu mais profundo significado.

Erkek Ruhunun Yaralanmasi ve Iyilesmesi Mitolojide Saturn, gucunu elinden almalarina engel olmak niyetiyle evlatlarini yiyen Roma tanrisidir. Saturn'un bu agir mirasini tasiyan erkek, kadin korkusu ve baba hasreti gibi yuklerle kendisini ve etrafindakileri yaralar. Jung'cu psikanalist James Hollis, bu yaralanmayi genis bir perspektifle tanimlayarak erkeklerin ruhsal yaralarini iyilestirme yollarini ariyor.