276 Pages
by
Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
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'This is what I really want. I want to discover ways to discriminate the important things in human life. I want to find ways of getting past this blind fumbling with existence .' - Marion Milner, from A Life of One’s Own.
How often do we really ask ourselves, 'What will make me happy? What do I really want from life?' In A Life of One’s Own Marion Milner, a renowned British psychoanalyst,... Read more
Introduction to the Routledge Classics Edition Rachel Bowlby
Acknowledgements
Prefatory Note
Preface
1. First Questions
2. Keeping a Diary
3. Exploring the Hinterland
4. The Coming and Going of Delight
5. Searching for a Purpose
6. Searching for a Rule
7. Two Ways of Looking
8. Discovering that Thought can be Blind
9. Watching the Antics of Blind Thinking
10. The Escape from Blind Thinking
11. Fear of a Dragon
12. More Outcasts of Thought
13. Relaxing
14. Cart-horse or Pegasus?
15. Discovery of the ‘Other’
16. Retrospect.
Epilogue
Afterword
Index
Biography
Marion Milner (1900-1998) was a distinguished British psychoanalyst, educationalist, autobiographer and artist.
