Surprised by her presence, he doesn't conceal his irritation and attacks her verbally, censuring her initiative. They are dimensions that should be distinctly kept apart to avoid the risk of confusing the identities. Jung, in his book Psychological Types , recognizes his psychology as a third place between the perspectives of the body and of the mind. Privileging the soul means returning to the images, since this is the way the psyche reveals itself spontaneously. Images are the basic data of psychic life, the privileged doorway to the knowledge of the soul.
Nothing is more basic in the soul than the images.
James Hillman advocates a Psychology of the Soul and an Imaginal Psychology. Thus, Psychology becomes the ability to listen to what the images are telling us. The images, says Hillman, are autonomous, spontaneous and inventive, and are always organized according to a given archetypal fantasy. We consider the concept of archetypes as fundamental structures of the imagination which, with its varied perspectives, influence not only the way we think and perceive the world but also our fantasies, our ways of speaking, our ideas and metaphors. Therefore, archetypes are present not only in the content of our discourses but also in the form these discourses reveal.