Word: psychoanalyst
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When Canadian psychoanalyst Elliot Jacques coined the term midlife crisis back in 1965, he was not talking about a man who, upon turning 40, wakes up the next morning afraid he is going to die, goes in for hair plugs, buys a Porsche and runs off with a cupcake. He was studying creative genius and found that for many artists productivity began to decline as they reached middle age and wrestled with their own mortality. Never a legitimate clinical diagnosis, it was more like a handy way of describing the perfectly predictable process whereby every so often people looked around...
...psychoanalyst Carl Jung explained how in middle age people tend to drop the roles they were playing, outgrow their pretenses. Some women become more willing to take risks as they grow less concerned about what others think. Women who submerged their identity when their children were young may feel a sense of liberation once they are older. Even the death of a parent, while painful and a frequent trigger of midlife depression, can free women from the burden of expectations, as they ask, Who am I doing all this for anyway? Shellenbarger cites research that found men's "dream fulfillment...
Friday's new book, Jealousy (Morrow; $19.95), begun about the time she cracked open the restaurant cookie, is a rambling and personal examination of the subject. Her central conclusion comes from the pioneering psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, who believed that jealousy is constitutional and rooted in the first few months of life. Klein taught that the mother's breast, as feeder and comforter, is decisive in building the infant's ego and sets the stage for envy and jealousy. Problems of envy are inevitable, and if they are not resolved in infancy, problems of jealousy may develop later. Withholding the breast...
...view was Alex Comfort's More Joy of Sex, which compared sexual jealousy to carrying on "like a backward five-year-old who sees another child with his tricycle." He solemnly advised readers to be proud of having a mate that others wish to sleep with. To the late psychoanalyst Leslie Farber, this view of jealousy was an attempt by pained sexual revolutionaries to conjure up invulnerability by declaring the pain invalid. Though the sexual revolution has fallen on hard times, some still agree with its alarmist view of jealousy. Manhattan Psychiatrist Robert Gould told Friday, "Jealousy has its roots...
From Klein, Friday says, she learned that jealousy is about power: "In a world where we all want to be in control, we can't afford intimacy. If you are afraid of jealousy, you will be inhibited about loving." Psychoanalyst Willard Gaylin told Friday that living with chronic jealousy is like "walking through minefields." She knows the feeling well. "I'm always going to be a jealous person," she says, "but it's not going to overwhelm me. Now I know where the mines are." --By John...