Old Age : Journey into Simplicity

In this classic text on ageing 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". 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.