Title: Old age
First published: 1987
Description: Publisher 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.
Subjects: Odysseus (Greek mythology) in literature, Old age in literature, English literature, History and criticism, Literature, Tempest (Shakespeare, William), Literatur, King Lear (Shakespeare, William), Odyssey (Homer), Four quartets (Eliot, T. S.), In literature, Alter, Aufsatzsammlung, Large type books, Aging, Aging, psychological aspects, Homer, Odysseus (greek mythology), Religious aspects
People: William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Homer, T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)