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Old Age

by Helen M. Luke · 1987

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Written by a renowned Jungian analyst, this text on ageing wisely reflects on the final journeys described in Homer's Odyssey, Shakespeare's King Lear and The Tempest, and T S Eliot's Little Gidding. By examining the work produced by writers at the end of their lives, it elucidates the difference between growing old and disintegrating.

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psychologypsychologyMore like thisLess of this
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agingagingMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 112 pages

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