  Van der Waals layered and 2D materials constitute an extraordinary playground
for condensed matter physics, since the strong confinement of wavefunctions to
two dimensions supports a diverse set of correlated phenomena. By creating
carefully designed heterostructures, these can be readily manipulated. In this
Perspective, we advance the viewpoint that heterostructures from from these
materials with thin layers of organic molecules offer an opportunity for
creating and manipulating the correlated degrees of freedom in unprecedented
ways. We briefly survey what has been accomplished thus far, including proposed
mechanisms, before concentrating on unique opportunities offered by the vast
selection of available organic molecules. We further introduce the notion of
proximitization in combination with symmetry breaking as a fertile and
potentially unifying conceptual vantage point from which to consider
opportunities for tailoring correlations in van der Waals layered materials.
