The Middle Passage
From Misery to Meaning in Midlife (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts, 59)
Ranked #11 in Jungian
Why do so many go through so much disruption in their middle years? Why then? Why do we consider it to be a crisis?
The Middle Passage presents us with an opportunity to reexamine our lives and to ask: "Who am I apart from my history and the roles I have played?" It is an occasion for redefining and reorienting the personality, a necessary rite of passage between the extended adolescence of the first adulthood and our inevitable appointment with old age and mortality.
The Middle Passage addresses the following issues:
How did we acquire our original sense of self?... more
The Middle Passage presents us with an opportunity to reexamine our lives and to ask: "Who am I apart from my history and the roles I have played?" It is an occasion for redefining and reorienting the personality, a necessary rite of passage between the extended adolescence of the first adulthood and our inevitable appointment with old age and mortality.
The Middle Passage addresses the following issues:
How did we acquire our original sense of self?... more