Jung in the World | Individuation at 75: Oliver Sacks’s Journey to Wholeness with Bill Hayes
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Bill Hayes discusses Oliver Sacks's journey to wholeness and the concept of individuation in Jungian psychology.
Individuation isn’t about becoming better. It’s about becoming whole. At 75, neurologist Oliver Sacks finally integrated the parts of himself he’d kept hidden—his sexuality, his need for love, his domestic life (who knew he kept a library of Jung’s work). Bill Hayes talks intimately about Sacks’s late-life transformation which exemplifies Jung’s crucial insight: growth isn’t about fixing what’s broken. It’s about integrating what you’ve exiled. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction, Bill Hayes is a frequent contributor to the  New York Times  and the author of seven books, including  Sleep Demons ;  Five Quarts ;  The Anatomist ;  Insomniac City ; and  How We Live Now: Scenes from the Pandemic .  His writing has also appeared in  The Wall Street Journal , The New York Review of Books , the  New York Times “T” Style Magazine ,  BuzzFeed , and  The Guardian . His most recent book, SWEAT: A History of Exercise , a narrative nonfiction look at exercise from antiquity to the present, is available now wherever books are sold.  Hayes is also…
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