Honoring the World-Soul
Author
Lewin, Philip
Editor
Stanley Bailis
Stephen Gottlieb
Julie Thompson Klein
Stephen Gottlieb
Julie Thompson Klein
Date
1991
Abstract
James Hillman speaks of the need for "a psychology that returns psychic reality to the
world," that restores the Renaissance cosmology of an anima mundi. In this essay, I present an
argument for an imaginal epistemology which takes as its central claim that the anima mundi is
biologically and psychologically enacted as image, pattern, metaphor, and narrative. I offer a
revisioning of selected findings within empirical psychology and biology as first steps toward
legitimating such an epistemology, and I try to suggest that dangers for self-deception implicit in an
imaginal epistemology may be met through the tools provided by poststructural critique.
Preferred Citation
Lewin, Philip. "Honoring the World-Soul." Issues in Integrative Studies 9 (1991): 23-33.