Midlife Crisis: Renewal or Stagnation

This Jungian Life Podcast · May 21, 2020 · 1h 4m

DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jung was particularly interested in the second half of life, perhaps because after his own midlife crisis he found himself so surprisingly generative. We tend to spend the first half of life oriented to familial values and cultural norms for success. Education, work, partnering and child rearing are some of the mile markers for speed and distance on the road of life—until midlife strikes. We may then discover that worldly successes feel flat, or blame discontent on bad breaks. Although dramatic lifestyle changes at midlife are the…