The work of Marion Milner and Y.Z. Kami

What is it about?

This study compares the work of a psychoanalytic thinker with that of an artist in the quest to understand more about both. Each looks at how we perceive ourselves and others; both find in the gaze of the gods a position from which to contemplate the human condition of living with our mortality. In this juxtaposition, each animates the other and gives reinforcement to our understanding of both the art and the psychoanalytic thinking.

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Why is it important?

This is the first in a series of articles which compare psychoanalytic theories with the work of individual artists. The comparisons enrich each thinker's ideas through juxtaposition of the discursive and the visual. They also lend weight to the shared quest of psychoanalysis and art to explore considerations about what it means to be human and focus on the contribution art and psychoanalysis make to our lives.