ABSTRACT
If James Hillman imagines his way of speaking as a ball game, the author would like to begin by saying that he was glad to catch the balls that he threw him and return them, perhaps with a little more momentum added and a twist given to them here and there. Hillman seems to imagine the Anstrengung des Begriffs in terms of a heroic effort to overcome a monster called the “split between subject and object,” or whatever. Hillman and archetypal psychology could find many of their own concerns in Hegel’s logic in different guise, discussed at a very high level of reflection and thoroughly elaborated—but not to be had without some effort. The real conflict has not been touched upon, or was so only when the author found the literalist, oppositional thought pattern that split logic and speech apart, which is not in accordance with Hillman’s own usual stance.
