Hillman drew the imaginal idea of psychology from two sources: Jung, who said that "image is psyche", and Henry Corbin, for whom the mundus imaginalis constituted an interzone between spirit and matter. By emphasizing image, Hillman hoped to discern a perspective that could be called the soul's own. Imaginal psychology sees psyche not as an object, but as a creative process. This chapter explores Corbin's evocation of image as it has been explained by Tom Cheetham, a principal scholar of Corbin's work, and inquire into the pragmatic application of the imaginal theory. By providing the "method and perceptual faculty" for a phenomenology of image, imaginal hermeneutics seeks to understand and experience actualities symbolically; it memorializes metaphor, recovering the differential language, writing, lost to ego consciousness. Image is a fundamentally interpretive, and therefore transformative, phenomenon. "The image", Hillman said, "is a self-limiting multiple relationship of meanings, moods, historical events, qualitative details, and expressive possibilities".