The Measure of My Days: One Woman's Vivid, Enduring Celebration of Life and Aging

Florida Scott-Maxwell

ISBN 10: 0140051643 / ISBN 13: 9780140051643

Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd, 1979

The recorded thoughts and memories of an elderly woman provide an intimate view of the doubts and dignity of the aged and reveal the strong human sense of the author. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers CIN0140051643G

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Playwright and Jungian analyst Florida Scott-Maxwell explores the unique predicament of one's later years: when one feels both cut off from the past and out of step with the present; when the body rebels at activity but the mind becomes more passionate than ever. Written when Maxwell was in her eighties, The Measure of My Days offers a panoramic vision of the issues that haunt us throughout our lives: the struggle to achieve goodness; how to maintain individuality in a mass society; and how to emerge--out of suffering, loss, and limitation--with something approaching wisdom. Maxwell's incredible wisdom, humanity, and dignity make The Measure of My Days both timeless and timely--an important contribution to the literature of aging, and of living.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Florida Pier Scott-Maxwell (1883-1979) was a writer, playwright, and suffragist who took up a career in analytical psychology in 1933, studying under Carl Jung in both Scotland and England.

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Titel: The Measure of My Days: One Woman's Vivid, ...
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum: 1979
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Good