A Note on Hermes Inflation

Excerpt-James Hillman-Mythic Figures

Despite our postmodern, polysemiotic, ironic, avant-garde, deconstructed, psychoanalytical sophistication, it is still so damned difficult for us to shed our historical monotheism. I once heard Karl Kerényi, who taught me mythology in Zurich almost fifty years ago, say it was impossible to return to the Greek style of mind. We cannot escape two thousand…