The Seba library treats Psychical Polycentricity in 6 passages, across 1 author (including Hillman, James).
we must abandon our attempts at an archetypal approach based on polycentricity and accept analytical psychology a prisoner for monotheism in its current Protestant direction
Hillman frames polycentricity as the non-negotiable foundation of archetypal psychology, arguing that to abandon it is to surrender depth psychology to a monotheistic captivity incompatible with the plurality of archetypal figures.
, Archetypal Psychology: A Brief Account, 1983thesis
we must abandon our attempts at an archetypal approach based on polycentricity and accept analytical psychology a prisoner for monotheism in its current Protestant direction
A near-identical passage establishing polycentricity as the defining methodological commitment of the archetypal approach, against which monotheistic integration theories represent a regression.
, Archetypal Psychology, 1983thesis
The polycentricity of the psyche demands no less than this, namely, a polyform time …
Drawing on Casey, Hillman argues that psychical polycentricity entails a non-linear, discontinuous temporality — polyform time — with direct implications for the theory of analytic practice and termination.
, Archetypal Psychology: A Brief Account, 1983thesis
The polycentricity of the psyche demands no less than this, namely, a polyform time …
The same Casey citation grounds the claim that a polycentric psyche requires a pluralised, avatared temporality irreducible to the linear clock that governs ordinary analytic assumptions.
, Archetypal Psychology, 1983thesis
he then becomes tyrannical, reflecting the jealous monotheism of Number One, who will not recognize the existence of independent partial personalities
Hillman’s critique of ego-tyranny grounds the polycentric argument anthropologically: refusal to acknowledge the psyche’s many autonomous figures produces both individual pathology and collective paranoid projection.
, Re-Visioning Psychology, 1975supporting
attempts to integrate the anima/animus into the self … tend also to be theological: they present theories in the senex mode for integrating differences into a single order. The result generally disfavors the plurality of individual differences.
Hillman identifies integrative Jungian stage theories as theological rather than psychological moves, arguing they suppress the individual plurality that polycentricity is designed to preserve.
, Archetypal Psychology: A Brief Account, 1983supporting