Books : Old Age: Journey into Simplicity
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by: Helen M. Luke
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 809.93354
EAN: 9780609805909
ISBN: 0609805908
Label: Harmony/Bell Tower
Manufacturer: Harmony/Bell Tower
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: February 20, 2001
Publisher: Harmony/Bell Tower
Release Date: February 20, 2001
Sales Rank: 990389
Studio: Harmony/Bell Tower
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In this classic text on aging wisely, the renowned Jungian analyst Helen M. Luke reflects on the final journeys described in Homer's Odyssey, Shakespeare's King Lear and The Tempest, and T. S. Eliot's 'Little Gidding,' and also on suffering. In examining some of the great masterpieces of literature produced by writers at the end of their lives, she elucidates the difference between growing old and disintegrating and encourages us to grow emotionally and mentally in this culminating stage of our own lives.
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Like her former partner Robert A. Johnson, Helen Luke is a master of rendering the psychological meanings in great literature understandable and relevant to all people wishing to gain a deeper level of understanding about the growtn of the human soul. Having plumbed the depths of her own psycho-spiritual aging process(Such Stuff As Dreams are Made On), Ms. Luke has created a work fusing literary scholarship and personal experience into a guide for all of us to follow towards the inevitable. When ... Read More
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