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Zusatztext "Unlike Woolf [in her book A Room of One's Own]! Milner doesn't just tell you it would be nice to have one (of your own)! or that women deserve one (of their own); it shows you! step by step! and in lovingly private detail! how to go about getting one-all by yourself! and without any need for special training or material resources-and what it might feel like to have one! moment by moment. It is an irresistible invitation." - Rachel Bowlby! from the new introduction. Informationen zum Autor Marion Milner (1900-1998) was a distinguished British psychoanalyst, educationalist, autobiographer and artist. Klappentext "First published 1934 by Chatto & Windus under the name of Joanna Field." Zusammenfassung How often do we ask ourselves, ‘What will make me happy? What do I really want from life?’ In A Life of One’s Own Marion Milner explores these questions and embarks on a seven year personal journey to discover what it is that makes her happy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Bowlby, New Introduction. Prefatory Note. Preface. First Questions. Keeping a Diary. Exploring the Hinterland. The Coming and Going of Delight. Searching for a Purpose. Searching for a Rule. Two Ways of Looking. Discovering that Thought can be Blind. Watching the Antics of Blind Thinking. The Escape from Blind Thinking. Fear of a Dragon. More Outcasts of Thought. Relaxing. Cart-Horse or Pegasus? Discovery of the 'Other'. Retrospect. Epilogue.
