The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and CallingRandom House, 1996 - 334 pages A journey into the essential mystery at the center of every life--the search for calling--The Soul's Code takes a new look at age-old themes, providing a radical, frequently amusing, and highly accessible path to realization through an extensive array of examples. Hillman ecnourages readers to discover the "blueprints" particular to their individual lives, certain that there is more to life than can be explained by genetics or environment. |
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... THEORY The theory of compensation — that Eleanor Roosevelt com- pensated her hopeless feelings with empowerment fantasies- pulls a lot of weight in psychobiography . Simply stated , the theory says the roots of later superiorities are ...
... THEORY The theory of compensation — that Eleanor Roosevelt com- pensated her hopeless feelings with empowerment fantasies- pulls a lot of weight in psychobiography . Simply stated , the theory says the roots of later superiorities are ...
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... theory and accounting for facts . For let's not overlook that what the identical twins have in common besides their perfectionism is their identical theory of that perfectionism : their mutual as- sertion that " Mother " is behind it ...
... theory and accounting for facts . For let's not overlook that what the identical twins have in common besides their perfectionism is their identical theory of that perfectionism : their mutual as- sertion that " Mother " is behind it ...
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... theory ? Doesn't the very term " acorn " put us immediately into an or- ganic model of natural growth and attach our theory both to ge- netic determinism and to evolution through time , two ideas our theory intends to circumvent , even ...
... theory ? Doesn't the very term " acorn " put us immediately into an or- ganic model of natural growth and attach our theory both to ge- netic determinism and to evolution through time , two ideas our theory intends to circumvent , even ...
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