Midlife transformation in literature and film
Subtitle: Jungian and Eriksonian perspectives
By: Steven F. Walker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780415666985; 9780415666992
Subjects: Middle age; Middle age in motion pictures; Middle-aged persons in literature; Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-237) and index.
Table of contents: title: Jung, Erikson, midlife transformation and the oneiric text; title: The shadow and the contrasexual side at midlife; title: Oedipus, mentors and male midlife transformation; title: Ariadne, abandonment and female midlife initiation; title: Homer's Odyssey and midlife transformation; title: Tragedy, inflation and midlife transformation; title: Modernist midlife initiations : Marcel in Proust's Time regained and Clarissa in Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway; title: Some classical Hindu perspectives on midlife.