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Beschreibung

What kind of life do I really want to live?

'Essential' Frieze

'Elegant, invigorating and beautiful' Amy Key

Akshi Singh was at a crossroads. She worked precarious jobs and drifted between flats and relationships in London, struggling to grieve and comprehend the loss of her brother years earlier.

Then she came across the twentieth-century psychoanalyst and thinker Marion Milner. Though their lives were so different, the questions and preoccupations Milner was exploring - about leisure, freedom and creativity - were Singh's own.

Milner asked the simple question: how do I want to spend my free time? By following Milner's footsteps - keeping a diary, painting, building a home and travelling to the sea - Singh discovers the importance of rest, creativity and play in all of our lives, and how it can open the door to achieving what we truly desire.

'Astounding, generous, and quietly exhilarating' Daisy LaFarge

'Luminous' Times Literary Supplement

'Open-hearted' Marianne Brooker

What kind of life do I really want to live?

'Essential' Frieze

'Elegant, invigorating and beautiful' Amy Key

Akshi Singh was at a crossroads. She worked precarious jobs and drifted between flats and relationships in London, struggling to grieve and comprehend the loss of her brother years earlier.

Then she came across the twentieth-century psychoanalyst and thinker Marion Milner. Though their lives were so different, the questions and preoccupations Milner was exploring - about leisure, freedom and creativity - were Singh's own.

Milner asked the simple question: how do I want to spend my free time? By following Milner's footsteps - keeping a diary, painting, building a home and travelling to the sea - Singh discovers the importance of rest, creativity and play in all of our lives, and how it can open the door to achieving what we truly desire.

'Astounding, generous, and quietly exhilarating' Daisy LaFarge

'Luminous' Times Literary Supplement

'Open-hearted' Marianne Brooker

Über den Autor
Akshi Singh is an associate editor at Parapraxis and deputy editor at Critical Quarterly, and is the editor of a special collection of Critical Quarterly presenting new writing on Marion Milner. She collaborates regularly with the Derek Jarman lab, and writes for the London Review of Books. Singh moved to the UK from India to study for a PhD in psychoanalysis and literature with Jacqueline Rose. She is currently training to be a psychoanalyst at the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Biographien, Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 256 S.
ISBN-13: 9781529928945
ISBN-10: 152992894X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Singh, Akshi
Hersteller: Random House UK Ltd
Vintage
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 198 x 129 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Akshi Singh
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.08.2026
Gewicht: 0,256 kg
Artikel-ID: 136075741