Reviews for Dickens to Hardy, 1837-1884

The average rating for Dickens to Hardy, 1837-1884 based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-01-08 00:00:00 Charles Martin This book was simple and discusses the psychological aspect behind ageing. The chapter of double loss by Carl Jung was very good. and other therapeutic experiences are readable. The book was a little disappointing because It moved away from the topic and finally the analyses about Demeter was lovely and putting that theory into practice was enlightening.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-10-17 00:00:00 Brian Grau A discussion of the search for meaning in the "croning years"- those those years between middle age and old age. Explores the myth of Demeer/Hecate the crone goddess. Also examines Carl Jung's term metanoia--a word used "to describe the deep change of attitude that can result from a period of trauma and psychological upheaval." I recommend reading this after James Hollis' The Middle Passage. To get the most out of this book I also recommend reading Jung's Memories, Dreams, Reflections and Ann and Barry Ulanov's The Witch and the Clown: Two Archetypes of Human Sexuality. (I can't recommend the Ulanov's work enough.) Cited in this work were a number of books I would like eventually to read: Murray Stein's In Midlife: A Jungian Perspective Daryl Sharp's The Survival Papers Rosemary Gordon's Dying and Creating: a Search for Meaning Erich Neuman's Art and the Creative Unconsciousness and I would like to revisit The Great Mother: An analysis of te Archetype and Origins and History of Consciousness. Erik Erikson's Childhood and Society (wherein Erikson describes eight basic stages of human development). These stages are discussed in chapter 4 "Other Voices" of Coming to Age. Ron Kurtz and Hector Prestera, The Body Reveals: What Your Body Says About You. Barbara Hannah's Encounters with the Soul: Active Imagination as Developed by C.G. Jung. The work of the followin Jungian analysists: Joan Chodorow, Anita Greene, Arnold Mindel, and Marion Woodman. I've read books about C. Jung but not the following: Laurens Van der Post's Jung and the Story of Our Times and Marie-Louise von Franz's C.G. Jung: His Myth in Our Time