The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life - Hardcover

Hillman, James

 
9780375501203: The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0375501207 ISBN 13: 9780375501203
Verlag: Random House Inc, 1999

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The bestselling author of The Soul's Code presents an incisive study of the aging process that argues that even the debilitating changes associated with aging become meaningful as they serve to promote the fulfillment and confirmation of one's unique character. 200,000 first printing. Tour.

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James Hillman is a psychologist, scholar, international lecturer, pioneer psychologist, and the author of more than twenty books, including The Soul's Code, Re-Visioning Psychology, Healing Fiction, The Dream and the Underworld, Inter Views, and Suicide and the Soul.   A Jungian analyst and originator of post-Jungian "archetypal psychology," he has held teaching positions at Yale University, the University of Chicago, Syracuse University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Dallas, where he cofounded the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. After thirty years of residence in Europe, he now lives in Connecticut.

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elling The Soul's Code, James Hillman restored passion and meaning to the concept of identity, arguing that each of us is born with an innate character, the "daimon" or "spirit" that calls us to what we are meant to be. Now, in The Force of Character, Hillman brings the idea of character full circle, offering a revolutionary new vision of life's most feared and misunderstood chapter: old age.

"Aging is no accident," Hillman writes. "It is necessary to the human condition, intended by the soul." We become more characteristic of who we are simply by lasting into later years; the older we become, the more our true natures emerge. Thus the final years have a very important purpose: the fulfillment and confirmation of one's character.

Contrary to the current genetic determinism that sees increased longevity as a wasted abe

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Verlag
Random House Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0375501207
ISBN 13 
9780375501203
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Tapa dura
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
236
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