Kate,
I am so excited to find another Hillmaniac on the site! I have been teaching Hillman's post-Jungian psychology now for years. And so much of my work (both poetry and prose) is heavily indebted to his influence.
Yes, Janet has answered for me. I took those two examples of the polarity of soul/spirit, but even the Bible has its soul elements - the Song of Solomon, for instance. And certainly D.T. has his spirit component. They are, after all, poles of a unity, so you really can't have the one without its other, but some texts seem to move to one end or the other, some alternating, some staying more or less fixed at one end of the polarity. But as Hillman points out, in the New Testament, psyche is used 57 times to pneuma's 274 times, making it more on the spirit end of the spectrum.
I would love to have a longer chat sometime about all this stuff.
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Mark Allinson
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