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“The art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.”
—C.G. Jung, CW 8, par. 789.
Jung wrote his important essay on The Stages of Life eighty years ago. Daniel Levinson and other life span researchers have called him 'The Father of Life Cycle Studies'.
Three books are briefly presented below, that study aspects of the cycle of life from a Jungian persepctive.
In Midlife
by Murray Stein
Midlife: crisis, anger, change… Drawing on analytic experience, dreams, and myths, Stein formulates the three main features of the middle passage. First an erosion of attachments. Then hints of a fresh spirit - renegade and mischievous - that scoffs at routines. This new spirit disrupts life and alarms family and friends. Finally, with luck, a transformation occurs; life beings anew.
Contents:
- Hermes, Guides of Souls through Liminality
- Burying the Dead: The entry into the Midlife Transition
- Liminality and the Soul
- The Return of the Repressed
- The Lure to Soul-Mating
- Through the region of Hades
- On the Road of Life after Midlife
Jung and Aging
by Leslie Sawin, Lionel Corbett and Michael Carbine, Editors
Leslie Sawin, Lionel Corbett and Michael Carbine, Editors
ISBN: 978-1-935528-62-3
270 pp.
Price: $32.95
Aging–what it is and how it happens–is one of today's most pressing topics. Most people are either curious or concerned about growing older and how to do it successfully. We need to better understand how to navigate the second half of life in ways that are productive and satisfying, and Jungian psychology, with its focus on the discovery of meaning and continuous development of the personality is especially helpful for addressing the concerns of aging.
In March 2012, the Library of Congress and the Jung Society of Washington convened the first Jung and Aging Symposium. Sponsored by the AARP Foundation, the symposium brought together depth psychologists and specialists in gerontology and spirituality to explore the second half of life in light of current best practices in the field of aging. This volume presents the results of the day's discussion, with supplementary perspectives from additional experts, and suggests some practical tools for optimizing the second half of life.
CONTENTS:
- Foreword Aryeh Maidenbaum
- Introduction Leslie Sawin
- CHAPTER ONE:
- The Case for a Jungian View of Aging Leslie Sawin
- CHAPTER TWO:
- Successful Aging: Jungian Contributions to
- Development in Later Life Lionel Corbett
- CHAPTER THREE:
- Emergence and Longevity: Some Psychological
- Possibilities of Later Life Joseph Cambray
- CHAPTER FOUR:
- Intimations in the Night: The Journey toward
- a New Meaning in Aging Michael Conforti
- CHAPTER FIVE:
- An Adaptive Perspective on Aging Robert Langs
- CHAPTER SIX: Opportunities for Ongoing
- Jungian-Gerontological Partnership Michael E. Carbine
- CHAPTER SEVEN:
- The Whole-Person Services Model and
- the Second Half of Life Kelley Macmillan
- CHAPTER EIGHT:
- The Central Role of Creativity in Aging Gay Powell Hanna
- CHAPTER NINE:
- Some Thoughts on Aging Well Mary A. McDonald
- CHAPTER TEN: Conscious Aging
- as a Spiritual Path Melanie Starr Costello
- CHAPTER ELEVEN:
- Spirituality and Relationship in Later Life Jerry M. Ruhl and Roland Evans
- CHAPTER TWELVE:
- For Every Tatter in Our Mortal Dress:
- Stayin' Alive at the Front of the Mortal Parade James Hollis
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN:
- A Jungian Approach to Spirituality in Later Life Lionel Corbett
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In the first half of life, the task of the young traveler is to depart from home, to step out into the world in search for his or her adventure, to find his or her own individual path. However, in the second half, we find ourselves on what often amounts to a very long journey in search of Home. In many a tale, the hero, for instance Gilgamesh, sets off on his road to find life’s elixir, while other stories, such as the Odyssey, revolve around the hero’s long and arduous journey home.
This archetypal journey of life is constantly repeated along the never-ending process of individuation. We find ourselves returning to this venture repeatedly, every night, as we set out on our nightly voyage into the landscape of our unconscious. Many dreams begin by being on the way, for instance, “I am on my way to …,” I am driving on a road that leads into the desert …,” I am walking through one room after the other in a long corridor-like building …,” “I am walking towards my office, but it looks different than in reality,” “I walk on the pavement and on the opposite side of the street someone seems to follow me …,” “I go down into an underground parking…,” “I am in my car, but someone I don’t know is driving,” or, “I have to go to the place from where I came ...”
Prominently, we are familiar with the journey of Dante, who at the very beginning of his Divine Comedy finds himself “Midway along the journey of our life.”
A partial list of topics explored in The Cycle of Life include:
I. The Journey
V. ii. Homage to Sophocles
V. iii. The Last Chapter: Self and Meaning
The Cycle of Life: Themes and Tales of the Journey
“The art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.”
—C.G. Jung, CW 8, par. 789
In the first half of life, the task of the young traveler is to depart from home, to step out into the world in search for his or her adventure, to find his or her own individual path. However, in the second half, we find ourselves on what often amounts to a very long journey in search of Home. In many a tale, the hero, for instance Gilgamesh, sets off on his road to find life’s elixir, while other stories, such as the Odyssey, revolve around the hero’s long and arduous journey home.
This archetypal journey of life is constantly repeated along the never-ending process of individuation. We find ourselves returning to this venture repeatedly, every night, as we set out on our nightly voyage into the landscape of our unconscious. Many dreams begin by being on the way, for instance, “I am on my way to …,” I am driving on a road that leads into the desert …,” I am walking through one room after the other in a long corridor-like building …,” “I am walking towards my office, but it looks different than in reality,” “I walk on the pavement and on the opposite side of the street someone seems to follow me …,” “I go down into an underground parking…,” “I am in my car, but someone I don’t know is driving,” or, “I have to go to the place from where I came ...”
Prominently, we are familiar with the journey of Dante, who at the very beginning of his Divine Comedy finds himself “Midway along the journey of our life.”
A partial list of topics explored in The Cycle of Life include:
I. The Journey
- Stages and Seasons
- Jung’s Stages of Life
- All the World’s a Stage, and a Stage of Life
- Being on the Way—A Way of Being
- Hermes and the Journey: Being on the Way
- Backward and Forward
- The Crossroads
- + more
- The Child in the Mirror
- Psychotherapy and Childhood
- The Divine Child
- From Divine to Human
- Eros, Psyche and Pleasure
- + more
- Between Shame and Fear
- Wine, Spirit and Fire
- Prometheus—the Thoughtful Thief
- + more
- King on Earth
- Boundaries of Reality
- Celestial Jerusalem—Terrestrial Jerusalem
- The King who Refuses to Die
- The Dried-up Earth
- The Limping Ego
- The Empty Shell
- + more
V. ii. Homage to Sophocles
V. iii. The Last Chapter: Self and Meaning
- Ancestral Roots
- An Oak and an Acorn
- We Are All Beggars, Are We Not?
- A Book in Order
- + more
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