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From Types to Images was published in 2018, seven years after Hillman's death. This volume is a compilation of writings that were published previously as articles and lectures. The book is divided into two parts.
This section is a fine-tuned version of a presentation delivered by Hillman in 1976 at the fabled Eranos conference series. It was also released as a stand-alone booklet in 1987. His expanded essay occupies the first 70 pages of this 224-page book and is comprised of three parts, titled ‘Persons as Types’, ‘Persons as Faces’, and ‘Persons as Images’.
‘Persons as Types’ begins with a tapestried background to Jung's theory of psychological types, citing ancient predecessors to typology taken from Greek mythology and alchemy, much as Jung himself did in the early chapters of Psychological Types (1921). Asserting that ‘types are not empirically visible’ (p. 25), Hillman questions how Jung could even describe his typology, adding that Jung's work on the types has led to a ‘major exercise of personality research to make them more visible’, which he believes has had the