In this classic text on ageing wisely, the renowned Jungian analyst Helen M. Luke reflects on the final journeys described in Homer's Odyssey, Shakespeare's King Lear, and T.S. Eliot's Little Gidding, as well as devoting attention to suffering. In examining some of the great masterpieces of literature produced by writers at the end of their lives, she elucidates the difference between growing old and disintegrating, encouraging the reader to grow emotionally and mentally during the final stage of life.

The Way of Woman offers a distillation of Helen Luke's life's work as a writer, counselor, and Jungian therapist, a luminous, multifaceted reflection on the two questions that have long preoccupied her: Why do so many modern women feel so conflicted about their roles, so cutoff from sources of spiritual nourishment? More importantly, what can they do about it?