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A Life of One's Own Joanna Field

A Life of One's Own By Joanna Field

A Life of One's Own by Joanna Field


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Summary

How often do we ask ourselves What will make me happy? and What do I really want from life?. The author of this text, first published in 1934 under the pseudonym Joanna Field, set out to answer these questions. Using her own diaries, she surmized her findings in terms of psychic bisexuality.

A Life of One's Own Summary

A Life of One's Own by Joanna Field

How often do we ask ourselves, 'What will make me happy What do I really want from life ' Marion Milner, the author of this remarkable book, first published in 1934 under the pseudonym Joanna Field, set herself to grapple with this problem. Written in the spirit of a detective story searching out clues, the reader quickly becomes involved in the chase. Using her own intimate diaries, kept over many years, the author discovers ways of attending, of looking, of moving, that bring surprising joy - ways which can be practised by anyone. She summarises her discoveries in terms of a psychic bisexuality in all of us, realizing that she 'had not understood at all that a feminine attitude to the universe was really just as legitimate, intellectually and biologically, as a masculine one' - and just as necessary for both women and men.

A Life of One's Own Reviews

'As exciting as a detective story' W.H. AUDEN, 1934

'A remarkable piece of self-analysis' ANNE KARPF, 1998

'Profoundly wise about life and living remarkable' ANNE KARPF GUARDIAN

About Joanna Field

Marion Milner was born in London in 1900. She took a degree in psychology and physiology at London University and worked in psychology and research for much of her life. She was a fellow of the British Psychological Society and her work was widely published in psychoanalytic journals. She died in June 1998.

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GOR001232737
9780860688211
0860688216
A Life of One's Own by Joanna Field
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Little, Brown Book Group
19860922
226
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