Akshi Singh teaches

An Introduction to Marion Milner: On Leisure and Creative Life

6 online sessions beginning Sunday, April 6 at 1pm EST

A psychoanalyst, artist, and writer, Marion Milner (1900-1998) offered a rich and often surprising account of creativity in her books. This course will introduce participants to her ideas on creativity and leisure, by situating her in the context of modernist writing and British psychoanalysis, and by trying out for ourselves her experiments with writings and drawing as part of each session. We will be reading extracts from A Life of One's Own, On Not Being Able to Paint, and The Hands of the Living God.

Akshi Singh is an Associate Editor at Parapraxis and Deputy Editor at Critical Quarterly. In Defence of Leisure, a memoir about reading the work of the writer, artist and psychoanalyst Marion Milner will be out in May 2025, with Jonathan Cape. She is a Lacanian analyst in formation.