Freud was raised in Vienna, Austria — and died in London.Jung was born in Switzerland three decades later, died in Switzerland two weeks after the outbreak of WWII.

Who can America claim as a founding father of modern pscyh? James Hillman is probably the best candidate: born in New Jersey, intellectually-bred by Jung — and still breathing.

Hillman is using his incredible cred to boost Obama — and carpet-bomb Hillary.

No one has written about this endorsement but Hillman zapped hundreds of psychotherapists with a half-hour political riff at a rare public appearance in Santa Barbara.

When Hillman talks it’s like the E.F. Hutton of psychology = people listen.

Hillman has entered his ninth decade as a kind of intellectual mystic – in that sense, the true living heir to Carl Jung (Hillman was a star student of Jung’s, and got his Ph.D in Zurich). Hillman’s word carries also carries a lot of weight with an adoring public who made his book, The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling (no relation to this site), a bestseller.

And at a recent conference on archetypal psychology, a genre Hillman created, he went off on the current Democratic presidential nomination battle. “We were all wondering, why is he talking about politics at a conference on psychology?,” says a therapist who attended. “But the audience was kind of shocked and awed into total silence.”

Barack Obama, says Hillman, represents the most enlightened politician in generations, and a future of reconciliation and re-invention. To use Eckhart Tolle’s and Oprah’s cadence, he’s a New Earth Candidate.

His would-be win represents an historic inflection point in U.S. politics. If America turns back from it, we face a “fascist” future.

Hillman added that the Clinton campaign’s biggest sleight of hand is running Hillary as a gender candidate who represents the yearnings and advancement of women: she’s a male archetype, and a continuation of the same old.

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