meeting Pat Berry
As Pat considered her second semester; Hillman was offering a class on ‘‘The Feeling Function’’(which became part of a book co-authored with Marie Louise Von Franz, Jung’s Typology. Pat enrolled and found this to be a whole other world… This man warmed my heart, For Pat, Hillmans words were not clouded by the mystical tones and esoteric jargon of other Institute classes, but ‘‘çlear intelligent and original’ - containing both critical and scholarly levels ‘‘as well as an incredible symbolic sense’’.
The next class Pat took of Hillmans focused on animal images in dreams, It became apparent to her his own instinctual energies were ‘‘a little odd’’. She remembered him demonstrating baboon behaviour to the class by jumping up and down, and turning around and rubbing his behind in a way that was maybe not lewd but at least unusual. He was just so alive Pat reflected ‘‘and i could suddenly make sense of things. I understood his language and respected his way.
Beginnings of Archetypal Psychology
Re-working the whole bag of Analytical Psychology was initially very much a joint venture between Hillman and his two friends of vastly different temperaments Rafael Lopex-Pedraza and Adolf Guggenbughl-Craig.
By 1966 Hillman had begun writing letters to Marvin Spiegelman and Robert Stein his two Jewish-American friends from student days at the Institute, revealing the influence that Lopez was having on him: ‘‘The older generation for all their virtues fail somewhere in their emotional reactions. As Lopez says, ‘‘we must stop talking about the puer problem - and begin to speak of the senex problem - that is now the problem in our group’’.
This letter written the same month that Pat Berry arrived in Zurich, went on: ‘‘The younger students are beginning to wake up, very slowly of course, that there is such a thing as ‘‘new analysis’’, Lopez coined this term…
In May 1967 he wrote Ýes, the old Zurich of our 1950’s is dead, but there is a new Zurich forming for the 1970’s; it is happening very fast too and in many directions. Lopez is a key figure in it all.
He added in another letter: ‘‘Lopez and I have done much talking about the fool…just the foolishness makes us human, real psychologists(understanders of the psyche) and on the edge.’’ That edge Hillman added, is where true insights come from.