num_pages: 144
description: 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.
language: English
title: Old Age: Journey into Simplicity
titlecomplete: Old Age: Journey into Simplicity
genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 117
publisher: Harmony/Bell Tower