1st Edition
Midlife Transformation in Literature and Film Jungian and Eriksonian Perspectives
Introduction. Jung, Erikson, Midlife Transformation and the Oneiric Text. The Shadow and the Contrasexual Side at Midlife. Oedipus, Mentors and Male Midlife Transformation. Ariadne, Abandonment and Female Midlife Initiation. Homer's Odyssey and Midlife Transformation. Tragedy, Inflation and Midlife Transformation. Modernist Midlife Initiations: Marcel in Proust's Time Regained and Clarissa in Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. Some Classical Hindu Perspectives on Midlife.
Biography
Steven F. Walker is Professor of Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and has published a number of essays using Jungian perspectives in order to interpret literature and film. His publications include Jung and the Jungians on Myth (Routledge, 2002).
"Midlife Transformation in Literature and Film is an interesting and highly informative read for anyone interested in Jungian perspectives on literature and cinema and for those studying or experiencing midlife transitions. Possibly part of its value goes beyond its emphasis on the psychological importance of myths to a thought-provoking challenge: that perhaps both personally and on a global scale, we need to enact new ones." - Wendy Cousins, PsycCRITIQUES, 2013, Vol. 58
