do despojamento

"Man is the only creature who can see his own death coming; and, when he does, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. He prepares for death by freeing himself from mundane goals and attachments, and turns instead to the cultivation of his own interior garden. Both Jung and Freud exemplify this change. They each survived into their eighties, and both almost abandoned interest in psychotherapy in favour of ideas and theories about human nature. In old age, there is a tendency to turn from empathy toward abstraction; to be less involved in life's dramas, more concerned with life's patterns."
Anthony Storr, in Solitude — A Return to the Self