The infamous and oft-misunderstood "mid-life crisis" has become something of an epidemic, with more and more people reaching middle age only to find themselves unfulfilled even after perhaps gaining the family, job, house, and life of their dreams. Middle age is, according to Jungian author James Hollis, the time to pursue what we "really want" in ...
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.
The Eden Project is a timely and thought-provoking corrective to the generalized fantasies about relationships that permeate our culture. This is not a practical guide on how to fix a relationship, but rather a challenge to greater personal responsibility in relationships, and a call for individual growth as opposed to the fantasy of rescue ...
A Jungian perspective on finding greater meaning in misery. -- Title #73 in the series Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts. -- For anyone who has suffered guilt, grief, betrayal, doubt, depression, anger or terror. -- For Jung followers and those interested in new ways to self-improvement. According to Jungian psychology, happiness ...
Many seemingly unexplainable behaviors are manifestations of what Jung termed the Shadow, that unconscious part of the self that contradicts the image of the public self. Hollis suggests that becoming more attuned to the complexity of behavior is the first step toward wholeness.
"Creating a Life" is a powerful series of commentaries on the importance of the examined life, illustrating how we may arrive at an understanding of our life choices and relationships by exploring our core complexes and personal history. With insight and compassion grounded in the humanist side of analytical psychology, Hollis elucidates the ...
The celebrated author of "Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life" delivers a unique look at happiness, sharing a Jungian approach to finding a fearless, authentic path.
"What we wish to know, and most desire, remains unknowable and lies beyond our grasp." With these words, James Hollis leads readers to consider the nature of our human need for meaning in life and for connection to a world less limiting than our own. In The Archetypal Imagination, Hollis offers a lyrical Jungian appreciation of the archetypal ...
Over the years James Hollis has offered us many a feast, and we have grown to appreciate the nourishment of their unique mixtures of bitter and sweet. Here he shares our boat, navigating the questions without charts that haunt us all. This is not a book of revealed truths. Rather it surrenders to the questions, guided only by whatever insight, ...
Saturn was the infamous Roman god who ate his children in an attempt to stop them from usurping his power. Men throughout history have been psychologically and spiritually burdened by the Saturnian legacy, suffering from the corruption of empowerment, driven by their fear of women and other men, and wounding themselves and others. These and many ...
Illustrates how myths reflect the archetypal roots of our personal psychology, and explains how ancient drives influence and often dominate our behavior.
Tales told by shadowy elders around ancient campfires offered both explanation and comfort. Life hasn't changed that much: our depend-ence on explanation and comfort still lies just under our busy ambition and constant yearning. Most of the time, the basic assumptions of our early years were so viscerally absorbed that we have never made them ...
The second half of life isn't about reaching a certain age or even "getting old." According to James Hollis, it is a pivotal time of rebirth when we stop living out the expectations of others-and start answering our soul's true calling. With Through the Dark Wood, this Jungian analyst and master storyteller provides an invaluable guide for ...
Following the philosophy of psychiatrist Carl Jung, this perceptive book teaches how to acquire a higher level of consciousness concerning daily decisions so that one can be more in tune with the complexity of both the world and other people. The typical question of why bad things happen to good people is also turned on its head in this study, ...
This book attempts to describe how country music was an important contributor to the economy of Southern California, until the early seventies. I tried to name a lot of the musicians who worked in the various clubs and bars around the Los Angeles area during the 50s and 60s.
Although it has been many years since my service in the Military and it was for only two years, it was an important period of my life. I learned a lot in those two years that has helped me throughout my life. In the effort to write this book it has taken me back in time, reviving memories of old friends and things that have happened. I have tried ...
This first full-length book on Pinter goes beyond an introductory study to an examination of the isolation characters in his plays endure and the lack of communication they bear. Dealing with Pinter's principal works, from his first play, "The Room" (1957), through his most recent, "Silence "(1969), Hollis shows that Pinter has created a new ...
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