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An Experiment in Leisure
Marion Milner
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Description for An Experiment in Leisure
Paperback. "First published 1937 by Chatto & Windus under the name of Joanna Field." Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JMAF; MMJT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 242.
What is it that stops people from knowing what they want? How often do we wonder where we are going and what our world is all about? Written in 1936 as a companion piece to A Life of One's Own, An Experiment in Leisure further charts Marion Milner's illuminating and rewarding investigation into how we lead our lives. Instead of drawing on her daily diary, she turns to memory images - images not only from her own life but also from books, mythology, travel and religion that seem ... Read more
What is it that stops people from knowing what they want? How often do we wonder where we are going and what our world is all about? Written in 1936 as a companion piece to A Life of One's Own, An Experiment in Leisure further charts Marion Milner's illuminating and rewarding investigation into how we lead our lives. Instead of drawing on her daily diary, she turns to memory images - images not only from her own life but also from books, mythology, travel and religion that seem ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
242g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415550673
SKU
V9780415550673
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About Marion Milner
Marion Milner (1900-1998) was a distinguished British psychoanalyst, educationalist, autobiographer and artist.
Reviews for An Experiment in Leisure
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 ... Read more