Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife

by James Hollis, Daryl Sharp (Editor)

Overview

Why do so many go through so much disruption in their middle years? Why then? Why do we consider it to be a crisis? What does the pattern mean and how can we survive it? The Middle Passage shows how we may pass through midlife consciously, rendering our lives more meaningful and the second half of life immeasurably richer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780919123601
Publisher:	Inner City Books
Publication date:	03/28/1993
Series:	Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian , #59
Pages:	127
Product dimensions:	5.86(w) x 8.64(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	7
1	The Provisional Personality	9
2	The Advent of the Middle Passage	16
	Tectonic Pressures and Seismic Intimations	17
	A New Kind of Thinking	20
	Changes in Identity	22
	Withdrawal of Projections	27
	Changes in the Body and Sense of Time	32
	The Diminution of Hope	33
	The Experience of Neurosis	35
3	The Turn Within	40
	The Persona-Shadow Dialogue	42
	Relationship Problems	45
	Midlife Affairs	57
	From Child to Parent to Child	61
	The World of Work: Job Versus Vocation	72
	Emergence of the Inferior Function	74
	Shadow Invasions	77
4	Case Studies in Literature	80
5	Individuation: Jung's Myth for Our Time	94
6	On the High Seas and Alone	101
	From Loneliness to Solitude	101
	Connecting with the Lost Child	103
	The Passionate Life	105
	The Swamplands of the Soul	107
	The Great Dialectic	108
	Momento Mori	111
	This Luminous Pause	114
	Select Bibliography	118
	General Bibliography	120
	Permissions	123
	Index	124