C.G. Jung and Death: Mortality, Transformation, and the Second Half of Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798183759785)

Most of us arrange our lives so that we need not think about death. Jung thought this was a mistake, and a costly one. He saw the awareness of mortality not as morbid but as the very thing that gives the second half of life its weight and direction.

This book follows Jung's reflections on death, transformation, and the task that begins around midlife, when the goals of youth lose their grip and a different kind of question arises. It looks at his understanding of the psyche's images of dying and rebirth, at what he made of near-death and visionary experience, and at why he believed a person who has come to terms with finitude lives more fully, not less.

It offers no doctrine about what lies beyond and makes no promises it cannot keep. It treats death as Jung did, as a fact to be faced and, in facing, to be made meaningful.

A clear and humane guide to the part of Jung's thought that speaks most directly to how we live.