This is a restrictive perspective and it has led us to believe that entities, other than human beings, taking on interior subjective qualities are merely "anthropomorphized" or "personified objects, not really persons in the accepted meaning of that word. If we find
persons elsewhere than in living human bodies, we conclude that these persons have been transferred from "in here" to "out there." We believe we have unconsciously put our experiences into them; they are merely fictional or imaginary. We have made them up just as the persons in our dreams are supposedly made up out of the experiences of our ego. We do
not believe that imaginary persons could possibly be as they present themselves, as valid psychological subjects with wills and feelings like ours but not reducible to ours. Such thinking we say is legitimate only for animistic primitive people, or children, or the insane.

James Hillman~