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The Capitalism of the Ego: James Hillman's Critique of the Ego Function in Psychoanalysis

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The Herculean Inward Turn

The Herculean hero knows only polar opposition, but craves something beyond their mannequin way of being. They crave depth. Without this experience of depth, their threshold for acting remains constrained to two manners of expression: external heroism or an inward one. Hillman proposes a third alternative, which is to embody depth, to engender depth, to dive into the images and to take them on their own terms.

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