Revisiting Marion Milner’s work on creativity and art
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8972014 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alberto Stefana (0000-0002-4807-7184, Private practice, Brescia, BS, Italy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 128-147 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00207578.2018.1533376 |
| PMID | 33945711 |
| OpenAlex | W2915301321 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 25 |
This article outlines the thinking of the English psychoanalyst and painter Marion Milner (1900-1998) and examines the issues of creativity and art, showing how her theory was influenced by the artistic and psychoanalytic milieu in which she was immersed. Milner, as a result of personal research on the inability to paint, came to believe that the creative artistic process, intended as the creation of new symbols that attribute a personal and subjective meaning to the newly created reality, occurs during moments of "primary madness" (of illusion of unity, of pre-logical fusion between subject and object), making it possible to have a relationship of reciprocity between internal and external reality. In such a process, the aesthetic experience of the artist at work plays a key role. Using Milner's ideas about the creative process as a base, the author investigates the links between psychoanalysis and the unconscious processes in symbol formation and artistic creation, showing that Milner's work is still relevant to psychoanalysis today
Aesthetics · Art · Creative work · Creativity · Epistemology · Illusion · Intersubjectivity · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Object (grammar · Painting · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Reciprocity (cultural anthropology · Sociology · Subject (documents · Subjectivity · Symbol (formal · Unconscious mind · Visual arts · Art Therapy and Mental Health · Computer Science · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |