Is your partner between 35 and 45 years old? Does he question all aspects of his life? Here are the signs that show he is suffering from a midlife crisis.
Aging is not easy. Besides the decline in physical fitness, the person also changes on the psychological plane with age. Moreover, it is at this level that lies the problem of the midlife crisis. Natalie Bourgeois, psychoanalyst and philosophy professor, explains the distinctive signs showing that a person is having a midlife crisis. “VSThis crisis would reflect awareness of one’s own mortality“, according to the Canadian psychoanalyst, Eliott Jacques, coiner of the term midlife crisis.
What is the basis of this crisis? Specialist Natalie Bourgeois explains that: “There are times in the life of a woman or a man when the subject calls his life into questionhis ideas, his work. He wants change and this deep desire often unexplainedin any case difficult to explain by conscious or conscious reasons, sometimes involves ruptures“. She underlines the fact that this crisis can occur at the age of 40 or at another period of life.
An essential awareness
The specialist, Natalie Bourgeois, explains that this crisis often occurs after a significant event. Whether it’s the death of a parent, the fight against an illness or parental problems. “The person then realizes that he is not really in his desire but thatshe just met a standard she violently rejects at an age often close to forty“, explains Natalie Bourgeois.
She affirms that the person becomes aware of the fact that she will be responsible for this second part of her life. “The subject then goes relive a form of teenage crisis, recklessness, borderline experiences, sometimes adopting the behavior of adolescents or young people. Some subjects go on a long journey, join more or less sectarian movements to understand the meaning of their life, others enter psychoanalysis in an attempt to symbolize something of their feelings, of their frustration.“, adds the professor.
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