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Journal of Analytical Psychology, Volume 37, Number 4, 1992
I have presented clinical material in order to illustrate a series of fantasies of parental intercourse which represent the self in successive stages of individuation from early projective identification to later introjective identification. From this is abstracted the idea of ‘father’ both as a component of the self representation and as the personification of the urge towards continuing development. Evidence is also gathered from the clinical material, supported by mythological parallels, to suggest that the whole process, including those components explicitly identified with the mother, is subsumed under an identification of the deintegrating self, its identity and integrity, with ‘the father’.
Journal of Analytical Psychology, Volume 37, Number 4, 1992
Marion Milner's writings c. 1926-1938, comprising the books A Life of One's Own, An Experiment in Leisure and The Human Problem in Schools, are discussed. The author speculates that Marion Milner's work has received little scholarly attention in the psychoanalytic world because it is difficult to contain within traditional theoretical categories. Her professional background and temperament dispose Marion Milner to wide-ranging interests and a practical approach to psychological issues. This article explores parallels between her ideas and Jungian thought, especially the contribution of unconscious process to organizing creative activity in a more coherent fashion than is attributed to primary process thinking. The author concludes that Marion Milner has developed an efficient model of creative process, consisting of the cyclical bimodal alternation of introverted and extraverted energy, mediated by symbolic imagery and the artist's interaction with the medium.