Eta kniga podvodit itog tseloy zhizni nablyudeniy i izucheniya togo, pochemu my zdes, chto mozhet oznachat nashe voploschenie s tochki zreniya prirody ili bozhestvennosti, chemu sluzhim i chego trebuet ot nas zhizn. V etih odinnadtsati esse, napisannyh klassikom yungianskogo analiza chetyre goda nazad, rassmatrivaetsya to, kak my ponimaem samih sebya, kak chasto nam prihoditsya pereosmyslivat eto ponimanie, prirodu i dar yumora, voobrazhenie, zhelaniya, a takzhe nashe stolknovenie s nartsissizmom i stareniem. Hollis issleduet prepyatstviya, s kotorymi my stalkivaemsya, i nashu postoyannuyu zadachu - prozhit nashe korotkoe puteshestvie s takim muzhestvom, pronitsatelnostyu i reshimostyu, na kakie tolko my sposobny.
