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In Marguerite Yourcenar's novel, Hadrian's Memoirs, the aging emperor comments sadly on the dissolution of the good relationship he had formerly had with his body. Le Gouès utilizes this notion of a change in the relationship to the body to discuss the work which the psychic apparatus must carry out in the aging process when constantly confronted with physical discomfort and weakness. Although the work of aging may be in some ways no different from that involved in physical illness