ABSTRACT
Nothing indicated in the sixties that in the midst of the youth revolution the concept of mid-life crisis-related to another very different stage of life-would appear with such overwhelming force; none the less it did. The pioneering work Death and the Mid-Life Crisis by Elliott Jaques was published in the The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis in 1965, producing its own revolution; it was a concept that was there to stay. More, the concept of mid-life crisis continues moving the people in the same way that Greek tragedy does, created more than two thousand years ago. Moreover, the mid-life crisis concept did not just function as a reaction but as a kind of psychoanalytic interpretation as well, in a manner equivalent to how interpretation functions in psychoanalysis, since it affected the understanding of the life cycle in a manner unknown until then. It can undoubtedly be sustained that the midlife crisis is a universal.
