A closing thought on inner child work that doesnât reduce or prioritize or overvalue the child as archetype; allowing without abandoning from or abandoning into, in Hillmanâs own words:
âWe might then have a psychology descriptive of man [not child], an aspect of whom is perennially child, carrying his incurable weakness and nurse to it, enacting the child neither by development nor by abandonment, but bearing the child, the child contained. Our subjective experience might then be mirrored by a psychology both more exact in its description and more sophisticatedly classical, where the child is contained within the man who carries in his face and mien the shame of the childish, its unchanging psychopathologyâuntranscended, untransformedâand the invincible high hopes together with the vulnerability of these hopes, who bears his abandonment in dignity, and whose freedom comes from the imaginal redeemed from the amnesia of childhood.â
James Hillman, 2007, Uniform edition vol 6.1: Mythic Figures, p. 122
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