The International Society for Psychology as the Discipline of Interiority

“As long as the problem [of the meaning of case histories] is locked into the old mechanical dualities of soul and world, inner and outer, psychological and medical, we chug on down the same old ruts. Instead we have to see the inner necessity of historical events, out there, in the events themselves, where 'inner' no longer means private and owned by a self or a soul or an ego, where inner is not a literalized place inside a subject, but the subjectivity in events and that attitude which interiorizes those events, goes into them in search of psychological depth.”

James Hillman, Healing Fiction, 1983, p. 25

“A great reversal of standpoint, calling for much sacrifice, is needed before we can see the world as "given" by the very nature of the psyche. It is so much more straightforward, more dramatic, impressive, and therefore more convincing, to see all the things that happen to me than to observe how I make them happen. Indeed, the animal nature of man makes him resist seeing himself as the maker of his circumstances.”

C.G. Jung, CW 11: 841

“It is a reconstruction of psychology which starts off with the assumption that there is a world "out there" and a world which is the precondition for the states of consciousness. ... According to this functional view, the mind itself creates new worlds, not in the Kantian sense of determining the forms, the categories in which experience must be interpreted, but in the sense that each new perspective gives rise to a new creation. The mind is a part of a creative process which is responsible for the world itself. Appearing within this process, the mind is functionally related to all other aspects of it. It is no longer possible to stand by the bifurcation of the world into outer and inner.”

George Herbert Mead, Movements of Thought in the Nineteenth Century, pp. 307-308