A Life of Ones Own, Marion Milner
A Life of Ones Own, Marion Milner
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A Life of One's Own

Author: Marion Milner

Narrator: Suzie Althens

Unabridged: 7 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2018

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

Marion Milner’s 1934 A Life of One’s Own illustrates a modern woman’s “crossing,” both disciplinarily and generically. Written before Milner trained as a psychoanalyst but delving into the Unconscious, and with a title that apparently alludes to Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, the book marks a point of intersection between incipient psychoanalysis and Modernist writing, of the kind represented more explicitly in the Strachey and Stephen circles with which Milner was tenuously linked. Yet Milner’s insistence on the term “own” in her title and throughout the volume also makes this a useful text via which to explore the reflexes by which critics examine such crossings. This essay interrogates the critical impulse to figure intertextuality and discursive exchange as forms of debt. Turning to the manuscript source material of Milner’s book, it asks what might the concept of work of “one’s own” have to offer in terms of rethinking critical practice.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Janet on April 08, 2010

I've had this book on my "To Read" shelf for several years...ever since it was referred to in "Simple Abundance". I'm so glad I didn't get to it until now because I was fully receptive to the message and suggestions...it came at a time when it would really resonate with me. As I read it, two things......more

Goodreads review by Marlene on November 01, 2012

Quite simply one of the most thought=provoking, erudite and uplifting books I have ever read.......more

Goodreads review by Cansu on March 29, 2021

Konuyu ele alış biçimini sevdim, öznel olduğu için ilgili başlıklar için her okurun kendi cümleleri vardır. Deneysel olarak ufuk açıcı bir okuma olduğunu bazı bölümleri göz gezdirip kendimce notlar almamın kafi olduğunu söyleyebilirim.......more

Goodreads review by Laura on December 03, 2012

I loved this book. "Joanna Field" (Marion Milner) does a great job of revealing her insights on her path to personal discovery in incredible (yet somehow not yawn-inducing) detail. One of the most fascinating things that I pulled from reading "A Life of One's Own" was that her conclusions about cert......more

Goodreads review by Merve on August 09, 2019

Oldukça sağlam bir kitap. Yol gösterme, kılavuzluk etme ya da nasıl mutlu olunacağına dair didaktik bir sav ortaya koyma amacı taşımayan bir nevi iç dökme kitabı olmuş ki girişte yazar bunu kendisi de dile getiriyor zaten. Kendimle, zihnimle ve duygularımla olan mücadelelerimi bana ayna gibi yansıta......more