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Marion Milner: On Creativity

Marion Milner: On Creativity

Russell, David

Paperback

Series: My Reading

Literary CriticismDrawing InstructionGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0198994176
ISBN13: 9780198994176
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Aug 6 2026
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This is a book about reading, drawing, and getting better--and what they have to do with one another.

Specifically, it is about how these activities were put into relation by the British essayist, artist, and psychoanalyst, Marion Milner (1900--1996). The guiding question of Milner's life was of how people come to feel alive in, and feel creatively responsive to, their own lives. In pursuit of this, Milner explored fields as diverse as anthropology, folklore, education, literature, art, philosophy, mysticism, and psychology. She became one of the twentieth centuryâs most extraordinary thinkers about creativity.

David Russell shows that there is no writer quite like Milner and the rewards of reading her are immense. Key to all her writing is her search for creative practices of attention--of how we pay attention in the life we have. She helped to develop a kind of psychoanalysis in Britain that focussed on the ways people relate to their own lives and the lives of others.

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