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While working on this chapter, I have also been shopping around for a Mazda Miata. I am about to be 50, and this handsomely designed but relatively inexpensive sports car, I had been thinking, might be just the special thing I would like to get myself for a present. Never having heard me express interest in owning such a car, my bemused wife sympathized with what she believed was my terror of growing old. She saw the gift I imagined for myself as a touching (or pathetic) effort to acquire externally the internal zip, flash, or grace I must feel was vanishing at 50. Psychologist though I might be, her depressing interpretation never occurred to me before she mentioned it. “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar,” I told her Freud once said. “But this isn’t sometimes,” she said. “You’ve never been about-to-be-50. And a sleek, fancy-looking cigar is not just a cigar.”
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Kegan, R. (1998). Epistemology, Expectation, and Aging. In: Lomranz, J. (eds) Handbook of Aging and Mental Health. The Springer Series in Adult Development and Aging. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0098-2_10
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