JAMES HILLMAN (b. 1926 – d. 2011) was a pioneering psychologist whose imaginative psychology has entered cultural history, affecting lives and minds in a wide range of fields. He is considered the originator of Archetypal Psychology. Hillman received his Ph.D. from the University of Zurich in 1959 where he studied with Carl Jung and held the first directorship at the C. G. Jung Institute until 1969. In 1970, he became the editor of SPRING JOURNAL, a publication dedicated to psychology, philosophy, mythology, arts, humanities, and cultural issues and to the advancement of Archetypal Psychology. Hillman returned to the United States to take the job of Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Dallas after the first International Archetypal Conference was held there. Hillman, in 1978 along with Gail Thomas, Joanne Stroud, Robert Sardello, Louise Cowan, and Donald Cowan, co-founded The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture in Dallas, Texas. The Uniform Edition of The Writings of James Hillman is published by Spring Publications, Inc. in conjunction with The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. The body of his work comprises scholarly studies in several fields including psychology, philosophy, mythology, art, and cultural studies. For the creativity of his thinking, the author of A Terrible Love of War (2004), The Force of Character and the Lasting Life (1999), and Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling (1996) was on the New York Times best-seller list for nearly a year. Re-Visioning Psychology (1975), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, The Myth of Analysis (1972), and Suicide and the Soul (1964) received many honors, including the Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic. He held distinguished lectureships at the Universities of Yale, Princeton, Chicago, and Syracuse, and his books have been translated into some twenty languages. Mythic The influences shaping the core of Hillman’s work are not limited to depth psychology. His ideas have firm grounding in the classical Greek tradition and are also deeply influenced by Renaissance thought and Romanticism, encompassing the contributions of psychologists, philosophers, poets, and alchemists. Hillman described his own line of thought as part of the lineage of Heraclitus, Plato, Plotinus, Vico, Ficino, Schelling, Coleridge, Dilthey, Freud, and Jung. Other influential authors in Hillman´s work are Keats, Bachelard, Corbin, Figures Nietzsche, Paracelsus, and Shelley. Throughout his writings, Hillman criticized the literal, materialistic, and reductive perspectives that often dominate the psychological and cultural arenas. He insisted on giving psyche its rightful place in psychology and culture, fundamentally through imagination, metaphor, art, and myth. That act he called soul-making, a term borrowed from Keats. He is recognized as one of the most important radical critics and innovators of contemporary culture. James Hillman Symposium Visit our new website JamesHillmanSymposium.com The Dallas Institute Publications publishes works concerned with the imaginative, mythic, and symbolic sources of culture. The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture 2719 Routh Street | Dallas, Texas 75201 | P: 214 871-2440 | dallasinstitute.org PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES Mythic Figures: 2017 James Hillman Symposium Glen Slater, Ph.D., has studied and trained in religious studies and clinical psychology. For the past 18 years he has taught Jungian and arche- typal psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, where he is a professor in the depth psychology programs. He edited and introduced the third The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture volume of James Hillman’s Uniform Edition, Senex and Puer, as well as a volume of essays by Pacifica faculty, Varieties of Mythic Experience, and has contributed a number of essays to Jungian journals and collections. He is writing a book on technologism, the psychology of the posthuman movement and related implications for living in the Digital Age. Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D., has for the past twenty-three years been a Core Faculty member in the Mythological Studies Program at Pacifica Dear Attendees, Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, CA. He has taught for the past forty-five years at the elementary, secondary, undergraduate, and graduate levels. From 1984-87, he taught teachers the classics of literature in the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture’s Summer Program for We, Drs. Gail Thomas, Robert Sardello, and I, assisted by Dr. Larry Allums as Director of the Institute, want Teachers. He also taught for six years at the Fairhope Institute of Humanites and Culture’s Summer Program for high school teachers under the direction of Dr. Larry Allums, current director of the Dallas Institute. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of twenty-five volumes to welcome you to the 6th Annual James Hillman Symposium. as well as over two hundred articles in books, magazines, newspapers and online journals. His titles include: The Idiot: Dostoevsky’s Fantastic Prince (1984); The Wounded Body: Remembering the Markings of Flesh (2000); Grace in the Desert: Awakening to the Gifts of Monastic Life In Mythic Figures, volume 6.1 of the Uniform Edition, James asks the essential question, “What is the truth (2003); Harvesting Darkness: Essays on Literature, Myth, Film and Culture (2006); with Glen Slater he coedited Varieties of Mythic Experience: Essays on Religion, Psyche and Culture (2008); with Jennifer Selig he co-edited Reimagining Education: Essays on Reviving the Soul of Learning of myth?” and then answers himself: “This question is particularly important since the modern, secular notion of myth (2009); Day-to-Day Dante: Exploring Personal Myth Through The Divine Comedy (2012); Creases in Culture: Essays Toward a Poetics of Depth; usually means falsehood and fantasy, anything but the truth.” Now when a standard education does not include a and Our Daily Breach: Exploring Your Personal Myth Through Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. He has also published six volumes of poetry and one novel. He offers (W)riting Retreats on personal mythology using the writings of Joseph Campbell and others to Jungian groups and study of mythology, many, maybe even most, young people have no appreciation for the cohesive net that was once organizations in the United States and Europe. Currently he is co-editing with Evans Lansing Smith a volume on the letters of Joseph provided by the mythological structures of Western civilization. Campbell as well as preparing for press a revised and expanded edition of Grace in the Desert with Angelico Press, which will be published August 2017. It is entitledA Pilgrimage Beyond Belief. As we gather our energies, we remind ourselves of our reason for getting together. It is helpful to remember Joanne H. Stroud received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology and Literature from the University of Dallas and lectures in Dallas, New York City, and Connecticut. She is Co-Founder and a Founding Fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, Director of Institute Publica- the Greek word Anamnesis, which roughly means “to recall to mind and to counter forgetfulness.” Plato used the tions, and Editor of the Gaston Bachelard Translation Series, which consists of seven works on elemental imagination written by the French term Anamnesis to refer to the recovery of knowledge that is retained in the soul and remains eternal. Socrates’ claim twentieth-century philosopher of science. The 2002 Bachelard Symposium she chaired in Dallas, “Matter, Dream, and Thought,” attracted international attention. The series completion in 2011 was celebrated with a Bachelard Day on the 30th anniversary of the Dallas Institute. She then followed that what one perceives to be learning is actually the recovery of what one has forgotten. Our puzzling served on the Boards of Overseers of Harvard University (12 years) and the University of Dallas (15 years) and serves currently on the South- western Medical Foundation. She has taught literature and psychology and is author of:The Bonding of Will and Desire; the four-volume series time cries for a moment of remembering that there are eternal forms and truths that bind through the ages, if we are Choose Your Element; Time Doesn’t Tick Anymore; Gaston Bachelard: An Elemental Reverie on the World’s Stuffand Towers 2 Tall. In 2017 the able to stay in touch with them. University of Dallas honored with her the Distinguished Alumni Award for sustained, distinguished accomplishment and contribution to any field of human endeavor. Selection as a Distinguished Alumna is one of the highest honors the university can bestow. Following the first Archetypal Conference in Dallas in the 1970s James came to the University of Dallas as Natasha Stroud, Ph.D., served on the psychology faculty for the University for Humanistic Studies in Solano Beach, CA, and for the San Diego University for Integrative Studies. In private practice in San Diego, she has lectured and written on the subject of psychology and Classical Director of Graduate Studies. Dallas offered him the transformative space to return to the U.S. His ideas and scope Chinese Medicine. Dr. Stroud taught Qi Gong for the Turning Point Crisis Center in Oceanside, CA. She has studied Chinese calligraphy for were enlarged beyond individual analysis to confront a broader interest in cultural phenomena. the past seven years. Rodney C. Teague, Ph.D.,lives in Cedar Hill, TX with his wife Erin, sons Tal and Ches, and daughter Emma Ruby. He works at the Dallas VA Early Friday afternoon, 27 October, the exact sixth anniversary of James’ leaving this world, we gather at Medical Center to promote a highly contextual approach to health and wellness among military veterans and their families. Rodney earned his doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. While there—and previously at the University of Dallas—he the Nancy Cain Marcus Conference Center of the Institute to watch a short film of a talk that he gave in November embraced psychology as a human science, emphasizing existential, phenomenological, and critical perspectives.