Facing reality with Marion Milner
This paper considers the work of Marion Milner (1900-1990) on art and psychoanalysis, with an eye to her claims for paying attention. It will suggest some ways in which Milner’s work responds to and develops psychoanalytic ideas about how people come to gain a sense of ‘reality’ – in Milner’s terms, a life that feels vivid and expansive – and it will trace her own criteria for a relationship to the world that is more or less ‘real’. Finally, the paper will link Milner’s criteria to particular modes of attention as they are described and evoked by some writers in nineteenth-century literary tradition – including Charles Lamb, John Ruskin and George Eliot .
Date:
29 October 2018, 20:15
Venue:
St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details:
St John's College Research Centre, 45 St Giles
Speaker:
David Russell (Corpus Christie College Oxford)
Organising department:
St John's College
Organiser:
Paul Tod
Organiser contact email address:
paul.tod@sjc.ox.ac.uk
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Booking required?:
Not required
Booking url:
http://oxfordpsychoanalysis.blogspot.com/
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Belinda Clark
