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This essay was Hillman's 1976 Eranos lecture, already published in the Eranos Yearbook for that year and now republished by Spring Publications as a booklet.
It is divided into three parts: ‘Persons as Types’, ‘Persons as Faces’, and ‘Persons as Images’. Given these headings, anyone familiar with Hillman's work will not find it hard to guess the direction that his persuasive rhetoric is going to take. In the first part he makes a trenchant and scholarly attack on the attitude which obliterates the uniqueness of the individual by assigning him into a category or psychological type. He takes a good look at Vol. 6 of Jung's Collected Works to remind us of Jung's great distaste for any ‘typing’ of individuals, and that his stated purpose was to gain