ABSTRACT
The word therapy is loaded with medical connotations, so James Hillman takes it back to be bathed in etymological fantasies in order to have a pristine sense of its nature. For the Greeks, the word meant “service, attendance, and nursing.” This notion of therapy lies deep in Hillman's approach to symptoms, dreams, and images. He attends to them and serves them, even when they challenge or contradict the taste and intentions of society or the person who presents them.
