Imaginal Love: The Meanings of Imagination in Henry Corbin and James Hillman, by Tom Cheetham
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Corbin’s work on the role of imagination in the religions and its fundamental place in human life has had a lasting and wide-ranging influence on contemporary poetry and the humanities. Among his most influential readers were the poets Charles Olson and Robert Duncan and the archetypal psychologist James Hillman. Central to their common vision is the creative power of language, understood not as a human invention but as a fundamental feature of reality. This new book by philosopher, biologist, poet, and teacher Tom Cheetham provides an overview of Corbin’s “psychocosmology” and its significance for Hillman’s archetypal psychology, contemporary poetics, and spiritual practice. It will be of interest to psychotherapists, artists, poets, and anyone who has ever wondered at the mysterious power of language and the imagination to transform the human soul.
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- Brand: Cheetham, Tom
- Published on: 2015-05-01
- Released on: 2015-05-01
- Original language: English
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- Dimensions: 8.39" h x .57" w x 5.53" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 200 pages
Imaginal Love: The Meanings of Imagination in Henry Corbin and James Hillman, by Tom Cheetham Review Imaginal Love is a work of vital imagination, at once personal, formally audacious, penetrating, and richly insightful. Beginning with the premise of the inherent and initiatic complexity of Henry Corbin’s thought, and building on the intricately laid foundation of the four previous volumes in his Corbin Quartet, Tom Cheetham brings his considerable learning and experience to bear on a dynamic, psychocosmological reading of Corbin’s mighty influence on the work of archetypal psychologist James Hillman, and those modern and contemporary poets, including Robert Duncan and Charles Olson, some of whose works have been guided significantly by Hillman’s ideas. For anyone interested in the overlapping open fields of depth psychology and Projective Verse, Imaginal Love is essential. (Peter O’Leary, poet and author of The Phosphorescence of Thought, and Gnostic Contagion: Robert Duncan and the Poetry of Illness)Cheetham’s book is a jewel that returns us to the “wild energies of creation” through his lucid and passionate dedication to the necessity of imagination for soul. His book offers the essence of these thinkers as alchemical transformers of being in the anima mundi. Imaginal Love returns psyche to cosmos: as organ of imag(e)inging where we embody the angels. (Susan Rowland Ph.D. Pacifica Graduate Institute. Author of Jung as a Writer (Routledge, 2005) and The Ecocritical Psyche: Literature, Evolution, Complexity and Jung, (Routledge, 2012))Tom Cheetham shows the heights that independent scholars outside academia can achieve. His prior work has virtually defined independent scholarship on Henry Corbin. In Imaginal Love, he has turned his gifts to "the meanings of imagination in James Hillman and Henry Corbin." The result is a powerful contribution to our understanding of the full meaning of imaginal love -- and the central role of such love in human life. (Michael Lerner, President, Commonweal)I will not forget this book. It has subtly but, I suspect, permanently shifted the way I look at reality, the way I listen to language. (Cynthia Bourgeault, retreat leader and author of The Wisdom Way of Knowing, The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three, and Mystical Hope.)
About the Author Tom Cheetham, PhD, is a philosopher, biologist, poet and teacher and the author of four previous books on creative imagination in psychology, religion and the arts. He is a former professor of biology and environmental studies and is now a Fellow of the Temenos Academy in London and Adjunct Professor of Human Ecology at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. He lectures regularly in Europe and the US. He and his wife live on a homestead in rural Maine. They have two grown children.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful. Re-humanizing Imagination and Humanity By David Kopacz This is an important little book. It is Cheetham’s 5th book on Henry Corbin, as well as on his influences on and similarities and differences from James Hillman and Carl Jung. This current book provides an easy entry into Corbin’s work and why he was so influential in the fields of spirituality, psychology and poetry. The book is informative, providing summaries of Corbin, Hillman and Jung’s work, while also being a work of beauty, poetry, and I dare say, even theophany and gnosis – as it helps us understand to see and understand the role of the imagination in Creation and how we are creators and participators as well as createds.The book also achieves a good balance of a conversational tone in which Cheetham is present and works alongside Corbin and Hillman and shares of himself as well as engaging in scholarly work. Perhaps it is no coincidence as Cheetham is releasing his first book of poetry, Boundary Violations, this year.The primary focus of Imaginal Love is on the central or at least integral role of imagination in spirituality, poetry, and humanity. Corbin wrote of a tripartite model of reality, with the typical dualism of matter and spirit being linked by a third realm, which he referred to with various concepts, such as the mundus imaginalis, the Imaginal, or the ‘alam al-mithal. Those familiar with Hillman and Jung’s work will see the influence of these concepts in the methods of Active Imagination and the emphasis on the imaginal and mythopoetic. Regardless of what he called this realm, its importance was that it was here that matter was spiritualized and spirit materialized. This third realm connects and orients matter toward spirit. Corbin traced the loss of this realm to the 12th century with the beginning of philosophical systems that separated spirit from matter.Awareness of or connection to this intermediate realm creates a different state of being, it engenders a different mode of seeing, being and experiencing the world. This state, the Sufis called ta’wil, is a state of interpretation of texts, world and being with continuous reference to the Divine or the secular could say the numinous. This state of being is crucial to understand visions and dreams, whether they are from indigenous traditions (which did not develop the matter-spirit division) or of modern experiencers of visions, such as Carl Jung or Philip K. Dick. The Imaginal is thus not only crucial to understanding mysticism, poetry and visionary consciousness, but it is also a way of life or a path in which an individual can strive to be open to states of being that come from the imaginative connections between spirit and matter.Orientation toward the Imaginal, Love of it, or connection to the Love that it is a source of, re-spiritualizes and re-humanizes. Corbin writes that one is human only in relation to God, or God’s intermediary, the angel of one’s being (the ‘alam al-mithal is also the angelic realm, the intermediaries between Spirit and matter). His work is thus a therapeutic endeavour in which an individual moves from a state of disconnected matter (an object) toward a state of spirit and matter in constant back and forth creation, in which the object can move toward becoming a subject, or a Person. Thus we are fully human only when we let go of our views of ourselves as egos and material, physical objects. We become human or re-humanized through letting go of our insistence on ourselves as separate matter and egos and open our hearts to Relationship.This is a wonderful and beautiful book, important for establishing Cheetham as a Person as well as in illuminating the importance of the imaginal and the works of Corbin and Hillman.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Pure gold By Peter FYFE What an absolute joy of a book! Tom Cheetham has done the seemingly impossible and found a way to bring together the ideas of James Hillman, Henry Corbin, and C.G.Jung. If the author's remarkable insight and engaging prose style weren't enough, he also reveals a little of his own fight with this material, making it all the easier for we readers to find our way to step up to the challenge of this most challenging material. The result is pure gold, so dive in, Imagine, Love, listen to the angels, and forget your self.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. review of Imaginal Love by Tom Cheetham By Ubaldo Morales-Ramos Cheetham gives up the traditional subject/object, (mind/body, literal/metaphorical, form/matter) philosophical perspectives for an idle/icon paradoxical world view, within a cyclical time and with no space for consciousness, the unconscious, the world, me, you, to be experienced as abstract nouns. All these rather become modes that live and view life in verbs and adverbs and speaks of events rather than objects. Everything "bursts with life". Presence of concrete being, transforming our need to conquer and destroy into one of discovering, exploring, creating, loving.It is truly an impressive book that transforms into an excellent source for depth clinicians to learn about the way of Jungian psychotherapy.Cheetham awakens Corbin at his psychological best this time and does it very well to the point there were times I thought I was reading James Hillman himself, bringing up to date his ideas.I was searching for this book way back at the turn of the century. It had become obvious then that there was a need for further discussion of Corbin's literature within Archetypal Psychology. But political & religious events illuminated psychology in a very peculiar and unique way through the first decade of our present century. Of special concern for this present book review, it seemed these events may have slow down and even stop for a time the creative flow of Archetypal Psychology, a psychology characterized by the integration of psychological Jung with mystical, abrahamic (Judeo-Christo-Islamic) Henry Corbin. It becomes obvious that all along through that first decade, Cheetham continued developing and integrating important mystical/philosophical Corbin into Archetypal Psychology in a very successful way, returning Archetypal Psychology back to it's corresponding top position at keeping alive the recreation of Jung's Analytical Psychology's original theoretical notion.
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