James Hollis

How do you define “growing up”? Does it mean you achieve certain cultural benchmarks—a steady income, paying taxes, marriage, and children? Or does it mean leaving behind the expectations of others and growing into the person you were meant to be?

James Hollis, Jungian analyst and author of Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life, Swamplands of the Soul, etc., guides readers to an understanding of those, um, “discrepancies” that lie between our professed values and our more habitual, often destructive, actions.

The Eden Project is a timely and thought-provoking corrective to the generalized fantasies about relationships that permeate our culture.