‘Redeeming the body’: Embodiment and the ‘other’ in the work of Marion Milner
Eve Dickson
Critical Quarterly December 1, 2021 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12639 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | Argues that Milner's avoidance of psychoanalytic technical terms can be read not only as preserving her own thinking but as identifying a constraint within psychoanalytic discourse that has hindered thinking about bodily experience, or the 'lived body'. |
Abstract
235). There is something antithetical, Milner seems to say, between psychoanalytic terminology and understanding what I will call the ‘lived body’, a central line of thinking in her oeuvre. While Milner’s formulation emphasises what her ‘disinclination to use technical terms’ has allowed her to do – thereby keeping the focus on her own thought – another way of reading this passage is that she has identified a constraint within psychoanalytic discourse, which has in some way not been conducive to thinking about bodily experience.