I miss him already. A wonderful man, writer, and trickster. Bly's comment in
this obituary is apt: " 'I don’t know what to say about James,' Mr. Bly said in an e-mail. 'You could say, "James threw enormous parties for the spirits." '
Coming back to this to add that I don't think the obituary gets what Hillman was about, at all. The so-called men's movement was a small part of his work, and an aspect that interested me least. Parts of books like
Re-Visioning Psychology and
The Dream and the Underworld actually invoke the imaginal realm that Hillman wrote about so eloquently. And his book on Henry Corbin (applying Corbin's thought to his own "archetypal" psychology),
Thought of the Heart and Soul of the World, is what brought me to Corbin's great writings. He was enormously erudite. The obituary makes him sound a bit Jung-lite, which he definitely was not.