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RELIGIOUS IMAGINATION: Polytheistic Psychology Confronts Calvin
Contrasted is the imaginal polytheism of James Hillman's Re-Visioning Psychology (New York: Harper & Row, 1975) with Calvin's mistrust of religious imagination. Hillman assumes a dichotomy between fantasy (liberating) & rationality (repressive). Fantasy, 'soul-making,' & polytheism are all linked in Hillman's extension of Jungian thought; archetypes become gods. In this vision, monotheism is equated with the perspective of the heroic ego. However, Calvin's classic statement of Protestant monotheism is not in the service of the ego, & requires a decentering from the self to 'the glory of God.' Calvin is not the enemy of imagination, but suspects the religious use of it as a tool for self-deception. AA.
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