UID:
almahu_9949747502802882
Umfang:
1 online resource (xxxviii, 180 pages) :
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illustrations.
ISBN:
9781003475514
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1003475515
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9781040025093
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1040025099
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9781040025109
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1040025102
Inhalt:
How often do we ask ourselves, 'What will make me happy? What do I really want from life?' In A Life of One's Own Marion Milner explores these questions and embarks on a seven year personal journey to discover what it is that makes her happy. On its first publication, W.H. Auden found the book 'as exciting as a detective story' and, as Milner searches out clues, the reader quickly becomes involved in the chase. Using her own personal diaries, kept over many years, she analyses moments of everyday life and discovers ways of being, of looking, of moving, that bring surprising joy - ways which can be embraced by anyone. With a new introduction by Rachel Bowlby this classic remains a great adventure in thinking and living and will be essential reading for all those interested in reflecting on the nature of their own happiness - whether readers from a literary, an artistic, a historical, an educational or a psychoanalytic/psychotherapeutic background. -- Product Description.
Anmerkung:
"First published 1934 by Chatto & Windus under the name of Joanna Field."
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Machine generated contents note: 1.First questions -- Discovering that I have nothing to live by -- I decide to study the facts of my life -- By this I hope to find out what is true for me -- 2.Keeping a diary -- I try to observe my own experience -- And discover that the more I look the more I see -- But I do not know how to learn from what I see -- 3.Exploring the hinterland -- Letting one's mind speak for itself -- It shows that one can have unguessed-at thoughts -- I find it has its own views about God and the world dare not ignore these -- 4.The coming and going of delight -- I suspect that moods can be controlled by an internal gesture -- For I discover the power to stop the mind from meddling, discover also the invisible feelers of mind -- Perhaps delight comes only when one stops trying -- But panic comes as well, with the act of surrender -- 5.Searching for a purpose -- I try to have a purpose in life -- I find a purpose but do not understand it
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Note continued: Wanting quality, not quantity, in living -- Concentration begins to come alive -- 6.Searching for a rule -- I look for a rule to control moods -- But I see the need to understand rather than to command -- For I find that trying does not master moods -- And `to will' seems a matter of waiting, not pushing -- 7.Two ways of looking -- I find that attention can be either wide or narrow -- And wide attention sees a different world -- But I cannot attend widely whenever I choose -- 8.Discovering that thought can be blind -- Observations of how children think provide me with a clue -- I learn how to set snares for wandering thoughts -- But am astonished at their childishness -- And observe how blind they are to their own nature -- 9.Watching the antics of blind thinking -- I find also that blind thinking has no respect for facts -- It thinks in terms of extremes -- And it is at the mercy of the past, the personal, and of the accidental
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Note continued: It threatens the whole success of my enterprise -- 10.The escape from blind thinking -- I find that emotion and fatigue increase the blindness -- But when expressed, thought can see itself -- So talking teaches you how to think -- And often you must talk to yourself -- 11.Fear of a dragon -- What happens when the gesture of wide attention fails? -- What happens to ideas outside the narrow beam of attention? -- Example of a fear that became monstrous when not recognized -- What does fear of death mean? -- 12.More outcasts of thought -- I misinterpret a picture in terms of its opposite -- And discover `opposites' in dreams and waking thoughts find how to provide clothing for outcast thoughts -- And discover that dreams can provide clues -- 13.Relaxing -- I try to learn control of my mind by relaxing my body -- But it seems that in order to relax physically one must first be active mentally -- So I discover the sagacity of the body
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Note continued: And I begin to learn how to perceive, not through my head only, but with the whole of my body and the whole of my past -- 14.Cart-horse or Pegasus? -- Finding a natural rhythm of awareness -- In the seeing phase I must stop and look back at the blind phase -- But it was not always safe to stop and look -- When watched, the blind phase becomes wise -- 15.Discovery of the `other' -- In spite of many discoveries I am still afraid of losing myself -- Then comes a moment of accepted annihilation -- And after this I discover new aspects of communication -- 16.Retrospect -- I had discovered something about happiness -- And found that science could help me, but was not the end of my journey -- I thought I had discovered the critical point of willing -- And when I did what I could, then I became aware of an unconscious wisdom that was wiser than I.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Milner, Marion, 1900-1998. Life of one's own. London ; New York : Routledge, ©2011 ISBN 9780415550642
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9781003475514
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003475514
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