In the last decades of the 20th century. James Hillman created a new vision of psychology and developed the foundations of the original psychological discipline - archetypal psychology. This volume of selected works of the “great reformer” contains his most important works of the 80s, which trace the intellectual history of this movement, analyze the root metaphors and concepts that form its practical basis (essay “Archetypal Psychology”); The author examines the most important question for modern depth psychology, “What does the soul want?”, the answer to which the author seeks by turning to the works of the great founders of the “science of the psyche” - Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Alfred Adler (“Healing Fiction”). The book also includes Hillman's important work, Egalitarian Typologies and the Perception of the Unique, on psychological typology. It presents the author's critical development of Jung's doctrine of types; The complex history of the relationship between the typical and the unique in a person is examined and modern methods for solving this problem are proposed. These works had already been published previously in small-circulation publications, aroused interest among a wide readership and were in demand by specialists of a wide variety of humanitarian profiles. The published book is intended for them, as well as for readers who are still not familiar with the work of James Hillman.