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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. 1. The Provisional Personality -- 2. The Advent Of The Middle Passage. Tectonic Pressures And Seismic Intimations. A New Kind Of Thinking. Changes In Identity. Withdrawal Of Projections. Changes In The Body And Sense Of Time. The Diminution Of Hope. The Experience Of Neurosis -- 3. The Turn Within. The Persona-shadow Dialogue. Relationship Problems. Midlife Affairs. From Child To Parent To Child. The World Of Work: Job Versus Vocation. Emergence Of The Inferior Function. Shadow Invasions -- 4. Case Studies In Literature -- 5. Individuation: Jung's Myth For Our Time -- 6. On The High Seas And Alone. From Loneliness To Solitude. Connecting With The Lost Child. The Passionate Life. The Swamplands Of The Soul. The Great Dialectic. Momento Mori. This Luminous Pause. James Hollis. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 118-123) And Index. 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? What are the changes that herald the Middle Passage? How does one revision the sense of self? What is the relationship between Jung's concept of individuation and our commitment to others? What attitudes and behavior support individuation and help us move from misery to meaning? This book shows how we may travel the Middle Passage consciously, thereby rendering our lives more meaningful and the second half of life immeasurably richer. --back cover Midtvejskriser skildret gennem litteratureksempler og beskrivelser fra forfatterens egen praksis som jungiansk analytiker