ANIMA MUNDI
PsYCHOLOGY AND POLITICAL HEALING

Of course I am in mourning for the land and water and my fellow beings. If this were not felt, I would be so defended and so in denial, so anesthetized, I would be insane. Yet this condition of mourning and grieving going on in my soul, this level of continuous sadness is a reflection of what is going on in the world and becomes internalized and called “depression”, a state altogether in me ─ my serotonin levels, my personal history, my problem. And the drug industry…and insurance companies are in general agreement. You must become even more anesthetized. Take Prozac: Depression is a disease and weakens the economy

James Hillman, Aesthetics and Politics