Clio

The experiencing that makes history possible and is its a priori has been called Clio. And Clio, as first daughter, has a special relation to the mother of muses, Remembering. Clio's name signifies gloria, honor, ce

Hillman establishes Clio as the archetypal a priori of historical experience, identifying her as first daughter of Mnemosyne whose office is to celebrate heroic, soul-revealing moments rather than accumulate profane events.

Hillman, James, Senex and Puer: An Aspect of the Historical and Psychological Present, 1967thesis

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Clio's name signifies gloria, honor, celebration, and she remembers best the actions of heroes. Her interest is hardly in the daily news of the world's case history, or what Mircea Eliade calls 'profane time.'

Hillman distinguishes Clio's proper function — celebrating heroic, archetypally significant moments — from the culturally addicted fixation on profane, quantitative time and 'instant history.'

Hillman, James, Senex & Puer, 2015thesis

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History may thus be redeemed by psyche through its connection with the primordial, thereby allowing Clio, the daughter of archetypal remembering, again to record history as a celebration of the psychologically meaningful.

Hillman proposes that Clio can be restored to her proper function — recording history as a celebration of psychological meaning — when memory is reconnected to primordial, archetypal image rather than clinical fact.

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Attraverso questa cura della memoria, sara possibile liberare Clio stessa dalla sua fascinazione per la storia clinica del mondo, restituendola al suo ruolo di colei che re

Hillman argues in Italian that a transformed care of memory can liberate Clio from her fascination with the world's clinical case history and restore her to her proper archetypal role.

Hillman, James, Puer Aeternus, 1967supporting

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La Storia prima è storie, e dopo eventi. Con le parole di Lessing: Geschichte als Sinngebung des Sinnlosen (La storia come conferimento di senso all'insensato).

Hillman elaborates, citing Lessing, that history is first stories and only then events — meaningful narrative requires a soul capable of conferring significance, the precondition for Clio's proper activity.

Hillman, James, Puer Aeternus, 1967supporting

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Remembering is thus a commemoration, a ritual recall of our lives to the images in the background of the soul. By remembering, we give a kind of commemorative legend, a founding image to our present lives.

Hillman frames remembering as ritual commemoration that grounds present life in founding images — the psychological substrate of Clio's commemorative and legendary function.

Hillman, James, Healing Fiction, 1983aside

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Cf. T. J. Pressley, 'Civil-Military Relations in the United States Civil War,' in War, ed. L. L. Farrar (Santa Barbara: Clio, 1978)

A bibliographic reference citing a publisher named Clio, with no substantive engagement with the term as psychological concept.

Hillman, James, Mythic Figures, 2007aside

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