… This article examines the notion of psychological polytheism in the context of Jungian
depth psychology. The author focuses on the concept of the “polytheistic psyche” which
American psychologist and philosopher James Hillman, founder of the post-Jungian branch
of Archetypal Psychology, has put forth as part of a broader re-imagining of the field.
Theorizing against a backdrop of mythological metaphor, Hillman maintains that the psyche
is by nature plural, and the human personality is ultimately multiple, not unitary. …