Midlife (n.) brings the woman in the man — the sister-wife-mother demon who forces a change of personality: his Logos turns traitor, he fossilizes behind moods, irritability and resentment.
Midlife (n.) is the revaluation of values: the untruth in one's former truth, and how much hatred lay in what had passed for love.
Midlife (n.) brings the zenith of life at about thirty-six, while a man still feels young and death lies far ahead — and if his nature cannot bear unconsciousness, an archetypal dream will force its meaning on him.
Midlife (n.) turns values and even bodies into their opposites: the warrior chief whom the Great Spirit told in a dream to sit among the women, wear their clothes and eat their food obeyed without loss of prestige.
Midlife (n.) brings a reversal of the psychic current: after the midpoint, intellect turns into speculative or intuitive spirituality — mostly unnoticed, beneath the threshold.
Midlife (n.) as the midday of life enforces the transition from man as a tool of instinctive nature to man as himself: a transformation of nature into culture, of instinct into spirit.
Midlife (n.) can flip a person into his opposite: Nietzsche the French-style aphorist burst out at thirty-eight in the Dionysian mood of Zarathustra.