Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible ExFrom grief and mourning to aging and relationships, poet and Redbook contributor Judith Viorst presents a thoughtful and researched study in this examination of love, loss, and letting go. Drawing on psychoanalysis, literature, and personal experience, Necessary Losses is a philosophy for understanding and accepting life’s inevitabilities. In Necessary Losses, Judith Viorst turns her considerable talents to a serious and far-reaching subject: how we grow and change through the losses that are a certain and necessary part of life. She argues persuasively that through the loss of our mothers’ protection, the loss of the impossible expectations we bring to relationships, the loss of our younger selves, and the loss of our loved ones through separation and death, we gain deeper perspective, true maturity, and fuller wisdom about life. She has written a book that is both life affirming and life changing. |
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Crítica de los usuarios - haikupatriot - LibraryThingThe lessons and insights obtained from this book do not diminish with time. Keeping it forever for reference. Leer comentario completo
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Crítica de los usuarios - bakersfieldbarbara - LibraryThingThis is a remarkable book that sheds light on how we grow and change through the losses that are an inevitable and necessary part of life. Losses such as our mothers' protection, impossible ... Leer comentario completo
Contenido
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Lessons in Love | 66 |
PART THE FORBIDDEN AND THE IMPOSSIBLE | 81 |
When Are You Taking That New Kid Back to the Hospital? | 83 |
Convenience Friends and Historical Friends and Crossroads and CrossGenerational Friends and Friends Who Come When You Call at Two in the Mo... | 170 |
Love and Hate in the Married State | 185 |
Saving the Children | 205 |
Family Feelings | 223 |
LOVING LOS ING LEAVING LETTING GO Chapter 16 Love and Mourning | 237 |
Shifting Images | 265 |
I Grow Old I Grow Old | 284 |
The ABC of Dying | 305 |
Passionate Triangles | 100 |
Anatomy and Destiny IIS Chapter 9 Good as Guilt | 130 |
Childhoods End | 142 |
PART MPERFECT CONNECTIONS Chapter II Dreams and Realities | 161 |
Reconnections | 325 |
BLIOGRAPHY | 417 |
ND EX | 432 |
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Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible ... Judith Viorst Vista de fragmentos - 1998 |
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Pasajes populares
Página 396 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits, and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms; And then, the whining school-boy, with his satchel, And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school: And then, the lover; Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress...
Página 86 - And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
Página 396 - With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness, and mere oblivion ; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing.
Página 364 - The phases and life tasks, defined elsewhere in this dictionary, are trust versus mistrust, autonomy versus shame and doubt, initiative versus guilt, industry versus inferiority, identity versus role confusion, intimacy versus isolation, generativity versus stagnation, and integrity versus despair.
Página 411 - It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Página 145 - Nothing I cared, in the lamb white days, that time would take me Up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand, In the moon that is always rising. Nor that riding to sleep I should hear him fly with the high fields And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land.
Página 396 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Página 396 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex |
| Autor | Judith Viorst |
| Editor | Simon and Schuster, 2010 |
| ISBN | 1439134863, 9781439134863 |
| Largo | 448 páginas |
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