The Divine Face of Things

Excerpt - James Hillman - A Blue Fire

While the erotic can be a form of mania, as Plato said, it also beautifies. Moreover, beauty is the first attribute which draws Eros to Psyche. "To love," says Diotima, "is to bring forth upon the beautiful." We have had to neglect beauty in our work because, on the Oedipal model, it was regressive, seductively sexual, the attraction of Jocasta. On the …