The Middle Passage
by James Hollis · first published 1993
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Why do so many go through so much disruption in their middle years? Why then? Why do we consider it to be a crisis? The Middle Passage presents us with an opportunity to reexamine our lives and to ask: "Who am I apart from my history and the roles I have played?" It is an occasion for redefining and reorienting the personality, a necessary rite of passage between the extended adolescence of the first adulthood and our inevitable appointment with old age and mortality. The Middle Passage addresses the following issues: How did we acquire our original sense of self? What are the changes
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If you like Rilke, you'd also really like James Hollis' The Middle Passage (1993). As for as books from the past decade go David Brooks' The Road to Character was pretty good. His follow-up The Second Mountain would have been better if he didn't recycle so much from the previous…
on “Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?” ↗…successful I do feel like I can relate on many levels. What got me through the depression that ensues in what I think was also a “mid-life crisis” was the perspective offered by James Hollis in his book: “The Middle Passage: From misery to meaning in midlife”. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47849.The_Middle_Passage These sorts of crises come along at various points in our lives apparently, when something new starts…
on “Tell HN: Turned 44 today and I'm lost” ↗I found a lot of value in The Middle Passage by James Hollis.
on “Ask HN: Activity and reading to move through mid-life crisis?” ↗…biography-- by Christopher Hitchens-- Cruel and Unusual [0]. It explains and summarizes Naipaul's literary significance as well as the fascinating fact that he acted very badly in his personal life. I read his Middle Passage travelogue after that after I read that and it did not disappoint as far as callousness goes. Although I wouldn't exactly say that it is what we should aspire to I did like it in its own way. [0] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/11/cruel-a...
on “V.S. Naipaul has died” ↗