Going through your second adolescence – aka the ‘middlepause’

Middle age is a time for retro-fitting our brains, says Marina Benjamin. Get ready to adapt and developWhen it comes to our psychological wellbeing and development I often wonder who got it right. Was it Freud, who insisted that our identities are fixed in infancy, so our adult lives unfold in the shadow of a formative psychosexual drama? Or Shakespeare, who popularised a staged developmental schema with his Seven Ages of Man – the implication being that when we leave infancy, then childho