James Hillman on political polarization

James Hillman is on the Huffington Post! In an interview titled “Jungian Analyst Explains the Psychology of Political Polarization”, Hillman discusses the minds polarizing movement, the either/or set up that leads to ideological thinking and Hillman says “But this isn’t how the world really is. For example, most people think that the opposite of white is black. But there are shades of black — from blackberries, to black coal or blackbirds — that have nothing to do with white. The point is to learn how to evaluate each issue on its own merits without having to bring up the opposition’s point of view. In therapy, when you have a dream of your mother, for example, you don’t necessarily have to talk about your father as a supposed opposite.”