Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life

James Hollis

Notes on the second half of life as a distinct task: the first-half arrangements that stop working, and what is being asked for instead.

Reading notes in Google Docs.

James Hollis is a Jungian analyst, and his subject is the second half of life as its own developmental task rather than a decline from the first. The identity assembled in the first half, built to meet the demands of family and career, stops answering in the second, and what replaces it has to be chosen deliberately. The book sits close to the puer aeternus notes, which describe the failure to make that passage at all.

Concepts

To fill in from the notes.