An Experiment in Leisure

by Marion Milner

Overview

With a new foreword by Akshi Singh, An Experiment in Leisure remains a striking and captivating adventure in thinking and living with uncertainty, whose insights remain fresh and relevant today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032757537
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/01/2024
Series:	Routledge Classics
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x (d)

About the Author

Marion Milner (1900–1998) was a distinguished British psychoanalyst, educationalist, autobiographer, and artist.

Table of Contents

Ellmann, New Introduction. Memories of Hobbies. Memories of Travel. Interest in Witchcraft. Images of Pagan Ceremonial, Burning the God. Looking for Pictures of What One Submits to. Fairy Tale: ‘The Death’s Head Emperor.’ How Should the Story End? Finding Further Terms. Haunting Images From a Bull-Fight. Feeling Drives Me to Study ‘Peer Gynt’. What Causes the Change From Imagination? Acceptance of Uncertainty as a Condition of New Understanding. An Attempt to Review the Method Used in this Experiment. More Images of Death. Attempt to Review the Results of this Experiment. Comparison With Other People. How Does Being a Woman Affect the Problem? Summing Up.

Editorial Reviews

"What does a woman want? "What is revolutionary […] is that the author makes herself the subject rather than the object of Freud’s notoriously chauvinistic question. Aware that her own wants have been distorted and obscured by expectations about ‘woman’ and the pressure to subordinate a woman’s wants to those of others, she strives to develop ‘a method for discovering one’s true likes and dislikes, for finding and setting up a standard of values that is truly one’s own and not a borrowed mass-produced ideal.’" - Maud Ellmann, from the New Introduction

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