Going Bugs

Résumé : Dr. Hillman re-imagines the bugs of our souls, explaining the importance of insects in our psychic ecology and how the wholly negative valuation of bugs (largely due to religion) comes back to haunt us in diseases, to which we wrongly try to eradicate with pesticides. Indeed, Dr. Hillman argues that our modern, scientific methods of pesticides is an unconscious Christoid war against the demons (i.e., the daemons) of the underworld. To do this, Hillman uses a collection of dreams about bugs from patients undergoing therapy