1st Edition

An Experiment in Leisure

By Marion Milner Copyright 2024
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

'Before I began this experiment I had always been haunted by the feeling that the surface of life, what everyone said about it, was quite different from the reality of life, that the important things that were happening all the time were on the whole quite different from what was said about them.'  - Marion Milner What is it that stops people from knowing what they want? How much of our... Read more

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Akshi Singh

Introduction

1. Memories of Hobbies

2. Memories of Travel

3. Interest in Witchcraft

4. Images of Pagan Ceremonial

5. Looking for Pictures of What One Submits to

6. Fairy Tale: ‘The Death’s Head Emperor’

7. How Should the Story End?

8. Finding Further Terms

9. Haunting Images from a Bull-Fight

10. Feeling Drives Me to Study ‘Peer Gynt’

11. Which Kind of Imagination Is Religion Concerned With?

12. Acceptance of Uncertainty as a Condition of New Understanding

13. An Attempt to Review the Method Used in This Experiment

14. More Images of Death

15. Attempt to Review the Results of This Experiment

16. Comparison with Other People

17. How Does Being a Woman Affect the Problem?

18. Summing Up

Index

Biography

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