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Zusatztext "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 discovering one's true likes and dislikes! for finding and setting up a standard of values that is truly one's own and not a borrowed mass-produced ideal.'" - Maud Ellmann! from the New Introduction Informationen zum Autor Marion Milner (1900-1998) was a distinguished British psychoanalyst, educationalist, autobiographer and artist. Klappentext "First published 1937 by Chatto & Windus under the name of Joanna Field." Zusammenfassung With a new introduction by Maud Ellmann, this book further charts Marion Milner’s illuminating and rewarding investigation into how we lead our lives and remains a great adventure in thinking and living. Inhaltsverzeichnis Ellmann , New Introduction. Memories of Hobbies. Memories of Travel. Interest in Witchcraft. Images of Pagan Ceremonial, Burning the God. Looking for Pictures of What One Submits to. Fairy Tale: ‘The Death’s Head Emperor.’ How Should the Story End? Finding Further Terms. Haunting Images From a Bull-Fight. Feeling Drives Me to Study ‘Peer Gynt’. What Causes the Change From Imagination? Acceptance of Uncertainty as a Condition of New Understanding. An Attempt to Review the Method Used in this Experiment. More Images of Death. Attempt to Review the Results of this Experiment. Comparison With Other People. How Does Being a Woman Affect the Problem? Summing Up.
