Awakening the imagining, sensing heart would move psychology itself from mental reflection toward cordial reflex.
Psychology may then become again Florentine; for the move “southward” that I have been urging these last twenty years—from the clinics of Zurich and Vienna, from the white laboratories and black forests of Germany, from the positivist and empiricist dissections of Britain and America, to say nothing of the gymnastics of the tongue in France—cannot be accomplished without moving as well the seat of the soul from brain to heart and the method of psychology from cognitive understanding to aesthetic sensitivity.
With the heart we move at once into imagination. For when the brain is considered to be the seat of consciousness we search for literal locations, whereas we cannot take the heart with the same physiological literalism. The move to the heart is already a move of poesis: metaphorical, psychological.
— Anima Mundi, The Return of the Soul to the World, Aisthesis