Dimensions
114 x 178 x 32mm
4 cassettes
James Hillman lays the groundwork for the "acorn theory", encouraging people to live an "individual destiny" independent of one's family, while defining and locating the soul in each of us.
Yet the family is the most difficult fantasy of our time. Nowhere do we more live a myth than in the realities of home life. And it is still the dominating theme of psychotherapy and psychological theory. One these tapes, recorded live in New York, Hillman carries through the agony of family entrapment to the absurdities of family embrace - a hug of insight and humour.
What is the power of this myth that so entraps us in the embrace of family? We need not merely work through childhood but also see through the myth that has created childhood. Can we look at family in such a way that it becomes less abusive and more sustaining?
