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E-book The Marion Milner Method : Psychoanalysis, Autobiography, Creativity

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This book’s cover image is a self-portrait painted by the British psychoanalyst and author Marion Milner. Dressed in the painter’s archetypal blue smock, at easel and with palette and brush at hand, Milner rests her gaze intently on the canvas as the viewer catches her in the act of creation. The painting is undated but, given the subject’s youthful appearance, was likely created during Milner’s younger years—just one iteration of the many acts of self-representation Milner produced over her lifetime across different media. This self-portrait, however, is a rare instance of a figurative, naturalistic self-portrayal. Milner’s autobiographical books, published throughout her lifetime, involve a sustained dedication to repre-senting the vistas and contours of the inner world, rather than those of the exter-nal. And if in this self-portrait Milner’s brush strokes on her canvas are obscured from our view, visible only to the painter herself, Milner’s autobiographical books reveal to her readers in careful detail the marks she makes in order to capture an inner life. In continuity with the rest of her work, however, this self-portrait is a representation of a subject immersed in the throes of creativity and self-depiction. Here is a portrait of the artist as a young woman, and as this study will examine, it is also the portrait of a psychoanalytic thinker exploring the site of creative expression for therapeutic self-transformation.This book traces the development of Marion Milner’s autobiographical acts throughout her lifetime, as expressed in her published work and in work now contained in her archives. It proposes that Milner is a thinker to whom we can turn to explore the therapeutic potentialities of autobiographical and creative self-expression. Specifically, this book draws out the ideas of a psychoanalytic thinker whose work proposes that autobiographical acts can provide an equivalent nurtur-ing and attuning function to what object relations theorists understand the mother and analyst as providing infant and analysand. Milner’s autobiographical books: A Life of One’s Own (1934), An Experiment in Leisure (1937), On Not Being Able to Paint (1950), Eternity’s Sunrise: A Way of Keeping a Diary (1987), and the posthumously published Bothered by Alligators (2013) are read as constituting a life-long engagement with the development of a therapeutic practice located at the site of creative self-reflection.1 One of the questions this study asks is whether Milner’s work champions this site for therapeutic work over that of the relation-ship between patient and analyst in the psychoanalytic setting.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

150.195 HAL t

Penerbit

New York : Taylor & Francis., 2023

Deskripsi Fisik

194 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781003296720

Klasifikasi

150.195

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

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Subjek

Psychoanalysis

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