Reading group – Solitudes: Past and Present

Reading Group – Warren Boutcher on ‘Montaigne and Solitude’

Clare Whitehead — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 10:21:20 +0000

This event has been postponed due to COVID-19 and will be rescheduled at a later date.

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Reading Group – Marion Milner’s ‘A Life of One’s Own’

Clare Whitehead — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:31:19 +0000

‘Another trick that I discovered was to keep myself particularly alert to any little movements going on in the back of my mind, passing ideas which were often quite irrelevant to my task of the moment and which I would never have noticed in the ordinary way. I called these ‘butterflies’ for they silently fluttered in from nowhere and were gone in a moment.’

Marion Milner’s writing concerns itself with the joys and difficulties of thinking independently and living creatively. A Life of One’s Own begins with Milner observing that her life ‘was not as I would like it and that it might be in my power to make it different’. What followed was a ‘seven years’ study of living’.

Written before Milner trained as a psychoanalyst, this book is difficult to classify: part diary, part detective story. The aim of this reading group is not to master Milner’s writing, but to try out for ourselves Milner’s experiments in writing, thinking, and observation. After a discussion of the text, participants are invited to take a walk in neighbouring Abney park, and to write a journal entry, if they so wish.

Email akshi.singh@qmul.ac.uk for readings or further information.

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Reading Group – Marion Milner’s ‘A Life of One’s Own’

Clare Whitehead — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:17:48 +0000

‘Slowly I realised that the facts were not separate things which were there for anyone to pick up, but an ever-changing pattern against a boundless background of the unknown, an immense kaleidoscope changing constantly according to the different ways you looked at it.’

Written before Milner trained as a psychoanalyst, this book is difficult to classify: part diary, part detective story. The aim of this reading group is not to master Milner’s writing, but to try out for ourselves Milner’s experiments in writing, thinking, and observation. After a discussion of the text, participants are invited to take a walk in a neighbouring park, and to write a journal entry, if they so wish.

Email akshi.singh@qmul.ac.uk for readings or further information.

We will be getting together for dinner after the reading group and walk — please email Akshi if you have any special dietary requirements.

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Reading Group – Marion Milner’s ‘A Life of One’s Own’

Clare Whitehead — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 14:24:49 +0000

‘People said: “Oh, be yourself at all costs”. But I had found that it was not so easy to know just what one’s self was. It was far easier to want what other people seemed to want and then imagine that the choice was one’s own’. In this meeting we will read Chapter V, ‘Searching for a Purpose’, from A Life Of One’s Own.

Written before Milner trained as a psychoanalyst, this book is difficult to classify: part diary, part detective story. The aim of this reading group is not to master Milner’s writing, but to try out for ourselves Milner’s experiments in writing, thinking, and observation. After a discussion of the text, participants are invited to take a walk in a neighbouring park, and to write a journal entry, if they so wish.

Email akshi.singh@qmul.ac.uk for readings or further information.

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Reading Group – Marion Milner’s ‘A Life of One’s Own’

Srinu Kunchala — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 06:10:23 +0000

Written before Milner trained as a psychoanalyst, this book is difficult to classify: part diary, part detective story. The aim of this reading group is not to master Milner’s writing, but to try out for ourselves Milner’s experiments in writing, thinking, and observation. After a discussion of the text, participants are invited to take a walk in a neighbouring park, and to write a journal entry, if they so wish.

Email akshi.singh@qmul.ac.uk for readings or further information.

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Reading Group – Marion Milner’s ‘A Life of One’s Own’

Srinu Kunchala — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 06:09:35 +0000

Written before Milner trained as a psychoanalyst, this book is difficult to classify: part diary, part detective story. The aim of this reading group is not to master Milner’s writing, but to try out for ourselves Milner’s experiments in writing, thinking, and observation. After a discussion of the text, participants are invited to take a walk in a neighbouring park, and to write a journal entry, if they so wish.

Email akshi.singh@qmul.ac.uk for readings or further information.

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Reading Group – Marion Milner’s ‘A Life of One’s Own’

Srinu Kunchala — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 06:09:01 +0000

Written before Milner trained as a psychoanalyst, this book is difficult to classify: part diary, part detective story. The aim of this reading group is not to master Milner’s writing, but to try out for ourselves Milner’s experiments in writing, thinking, and observation. After a discussion of the text, participants are invited to take a walk in a neighbouring park, and to write a journal entry, if they so wish.

Email akshi.singh@qmul.ac.uk for readings or further information.

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