Case Of Sara And Her Husband

Case of Sara and Her Husband Sara is a 39-year-old Orthodox Jewish woman; and being a prominent social worker and middle-aged woman, she was interviewed about her experiences related to her life course stage. Sara’s husband Isaac, a 37-year-old Orthodox Jewish man, was interviewed as well for a better understanding of this stage and its effects on the opposite sex. Initially, the author assumed the interviewee, Sara, suffers from an eating disorder and obsessive thoughts regarding her appearance. Sara refers to herself as overweight when her peers and family members view her as significantly underweight. At the age of 35, she contemplated Botox to combat her aging skin. She now exercises excessively and maintains a restricted diet. Because
He stated a teaching that his Rabbi used to illustrate this: “Man and woman are not genders, but rather, the two forces in the world. Male is the essence of something, and female is the connection to the essence. Men gives sperm in abundance, women give eggs once a month at specific times. When we want to concretize ourselves (us being the unlimited power), we do something specific at the right time and place (the female aspect). That is why we believe women are beauty. Beauty is the act of concretizing the self. Gender is a power, therefore both women and men have the two powers. And when you view connection, the body, as essence, you lose the self.” Isaac adheres to this teaching strongly and relates the concept to his views on
Parent-child bonds relate to the generativity of middle adulthood, positively correlating the success of these two factors. The married child of Sara no longer lives with her, dramatically inhibiting Sara’s ability to give. Instead of generative tasks, time is spent on personal appearance; she attends the gym and focuses on dieting. The parent-child bond is absent and appearance-oriented tasks are acting as supplements. Harmonization and reclamation of various parts of self is not wholly accomplished in Sara’s case. The lost sense-of-self during early years of development is not recovered. Obsessive thoughts about body-image and compulsive eating patterns remain a part of her daily routine; and guilt and shame routed in her childhood experiences with her father are prevalent. Isaac spends leisure time with his two unmarried daughters. The need to take part in generative acts for the next generation is met through the parent-child bond. Contentment of his relationships between himself and his daughters was expressed with much lucidity during the