Experiment in Leisure

With a new foreword by Akshi Singh, An Experiment in Leisure remains a striking and captivating adventure in thinking and living with uncertainty, whose insights remain fresh and relevant today.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

With a new foreword by Akshi Singh, An Experiment in Leisure remains a striking and captivating adventure in thinking and living with uncertainty, whose insights remain fresh and relevant today.

Product details

• Authors: Marion Milner, Milner Marion
• Assisted by: Akshi Singh (Foreword)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032757568
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3275756-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Routledge Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; MEDICAL / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Holidays (non-religious), Psychotherapy, Sociology: sport & leisure, Mental health services, Sociology: sport and leisure, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis