Can “all things be new”? Ageing and creativity
Rev’d Dr Jane FoulcherCentre for Ageing & Pastoral Studies
Charles Sturt University
Ageing as forward movement
Personal setbacks• Loss of personal dignity• Loss of work• Loss of independence• Loss of time• Loss of object relations
Potential Gains• Discovery of some positive
adult dependencies• Redefining one’s own status• Discovering one’s own inner
world• Relaxing of defences• Living in the present• (Re-)identification with
youthful idealism• New freedom & openness
Pruyser (1975)
Creativity in ageing
• Changing aspirations• Waning of rivalry• Discerning survivors• Greater interiority• Accumulation of experiences, recognition of
ambiguities
Pruyser (1987)
Orthodox icons
Icons are in colours what the Scriptures are in words: witnesses to the Incarnation, the fact that God has come among us as a person whom we can see, touch and hear, to offer us new life and begin the new creation
(Council of Nicea, 787)
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