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May 7, 2018 · By Susan Zieger. This disjunction between approach and subject matter is the secret of the book’s enduring appeal. In A Life, all the perverse delight of snooping in a private journal is nested within a philosophically strenuous reading experience. Milner gets her readers to rethink the separation of spheres of work and leisure: to find ...
It is unusual to combine mysticism and psychoanalysis. Marion Milner, however, achieved precisely this. Through her self-analysis and analytic work with children and adults--and using as an illustration her own and others' imaginative ideas, paintings, doodles, drawings and pictures--she drew attention to the potential for health and creativity ...
Marion Milner’s 1934 A Life of One’s Own illustrates a modern woman’s “crossing,” both disciplinarily and generically. Written before Milner trained as a psychoanalyst but delving into the Unconscious, and with a title that apparently alludes to Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, the book marks a point of intersection between incipient psychoanalysis and Modernist writing, of ...
MARION MILNER was a prominent independent psychoanalyst and writer. She was trained as a psychologist, and worked in industry and in schools. Her interest in the unconscious grew from her personal ...
Sep 9, 2010 · An important focus of the book is the drawings themselves, 150 of which are reproduced in the text, and their deep unconscious perception of the battle between sanity and madness. It is these drawings, linked with Milner’s sensitive and lucid record of the therapeutic encounter, that give the book its unique and compelling interest.
Mar 22, 2011 · In A Life of One’s Own Marion Milner explores these questions and embarks on a seven year personal journey to discover what it is that makes her happy. On its first publication, W. H. Auden found the book ‘as exciting as a detective story’ and, as Milner searches out clues, the reader quickly becomes involved in the chase.
Sep 5, 2012 · I first encountered Marion Milner through her writings on creativity, compiled along with her other psychoanalytic papers in the volume The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men (1987a). In these papers, I found a kindred spirit who was intimately aware of many of the challenges and rewards of creative engagement.
