Les renoncements nécessaires

Judith Viorst, with esprit, courage, and lucidity, retraces for us the long road that leads from the first separation from our mother to the loss of illusions and youth, to the departure or abandonment of those we love, and ultimately to the reality of our own mortality, which must find us prepared and help us grow. This is a beautifully written book that illuminates psychoanalytic theory in a lively, accessible, and non-doctrinal manner. It is a personal work, enriched by experience and literary references, that awakens in us a desire for wisdom and helps us to open the door to serenity, which can sometimes be closed or unopened, guiding us in accepting these necessary rejections.