Midlife crisis
Midlife crisis is an Elliott Jaques term for Western societies who show a doubt felt in the middle years of life. The result of the imminence of old age, or a converted passing of your own youth. Somtimes triggered by extramarital affairs, menopause, the loss of a loved one or no work, dissatisfying work. You hate your job, but are not sure the precedence of what to do, just when the kids are leaving home.
The choices: make significant changes in day-to-day life, in your work-life balance, marriage, big-ticket expenditures or physical appearance.
Many middle aged adults have major life events that causes a form of depression. As said, career setback and a close one's death, could have happened earlier in life, making them a crisis, not a mid-life one. By all accounts, I should have been dead, by now.
As began, is midlife crisis a particular Western idea? Evidence says the Japanese and Indian cultures show no cultural construct. Authors say Western society keeps a 'culture of youth' in perpetual motion. Research finds midlife for reassessment and reflection and wonder, what's the rub?
Work has been done to indicate men and women see midlife crisi differently. Male crisis most likely caused over work. Another suggests the female menopause and end to reproductive years implies a skewed view.
Freud related in middle age, everyone gets thoughts of their pending mortality.
It seems the idea is more a product of popular culture, than research into. Jungian theory says midlife is for individuation, a self-awareness with many paradoxes, of contradictorial nature. The integration of thinking, sensation, feeling and intuition can lead to confusion over your lot in life, compared to goals.
Eric Eriksen said in midlife we struggle to find meaning and purpose to life, questioning leading to a possible crisis.
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