The emphasis on death, again, as in the underworld being the house or land of the dead, is a constant in Hillman's writing. It has to do with enriching life through soul-making. Like the shaman, we have said, we must in some way be dismembered, must fall apart, to be healed — or perhaps it is in disintegration, the difficult demotion of the ego as only and eternal authority for the self, that healing happens, almost as a by-product. The riches that Greek myth attributes to Hades, otherwise known as Pluto, may only be available by adopting his deathly perspective, seeing his dark "night-residues" in our days.
— Daniel C. Noel, The Soul of Shamanism