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...still flailing out, and her anger keeps her on the brink of staring-into-the-void depressions. In her lean, elliptical prose, she always writes about the thunderous passage of emotion through the brain, of battles lost for love or understanding, of desertion and disillusionment-the realm of psychic pain...
...Death in Life, Lifton wrote that "our need is. . . to create new psychic and social forms to enable us to reclaim not only our technologies, but our very imaginations in the service of the continuity of life...
...practitioner of "lifecycle psychiatry," Washington's 43-year-old Dr. Butler, believes that the possibilities for psychic change may be greater in old age than at any other period of life. "Little attention has been paid to the wish to change identity, to preserve and exercise the sense of possibility and incompleteness against a sense of closure and completeness." When a person's identity is maintained throughout old age, "I find it an ominous sign rather than the other way around. If the term needs to be used at all, I suggest that a continuing, life-long identity crisis...
Carl Jung, who lived with great vigor until the age of 85, saw aging as a process of continuous inward development ("individuation"), with important psychic changes occurring right up to the time of death. "Anyone who fails to go along with life remains suspended, stiff and rigid in mid-air," Jung wrote. "That is why so many people get wooden in old age; they look back and cling to the past with a secret fear of death in their hearts. From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life...
Raising Spirits. The music itself is less interesting than the manner in which it is supposedly given. Mediums have come and gone throughout history. Today both science and the general public are more concerned with psychic phenomena than at any other time within this century. For those who long to believe in it, what could be at stake in Rosemary's rise is proof of life after death...