Old Age
by Helen M. Luke
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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 show more our own lives. show lessTags
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Shakespeare's The Tempest. Little Gidding by T.S. Eliot. The Odyessy.
All provide clues as to the questions we must answer as we age. The last chapter on suffering took a different bent. When we suffer for the sake of love, or offer it for love, there is some action at the heart of life. Etty Hillesum would agree.
All provide clues as to the questions we must answer as we age. The last chapter on suffering took a different bent. When we suffer for the sake of love, or offer it for love, there is some action at the heart of life. Etty Hillesum would agree.
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Helen M. Luke was born in 1904 in England. She received a Master's degree in French and Italian literature from Somerville College, Oxford. Twenty years later, she became interested in the work of C. G. Jung and studied at the Jung Institute in Zurich. After moving to the United States in 1949, she established an analytical practice in Los show more Angeles, then in 1962 founded the Apple Farm Community in Michigan show less
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- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism, Religion & Spirituality
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- 809.93354 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures Literature displaying specific features, miscellaneous writings Literature displaying other aspects Literature dealing with specific themes and subjects Humanity Life cycle (birth, love, marriage, death)
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- PR409 .O45 .L8 — Language and Literature English English Literature By period Modern
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