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Singh, Akshi

 
9781529928945: In Defence of Leisure: Embracing rest, creativity and change
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ISBN 10 : 152992894X ISBN 13 : 9781529928945
Editeur : Vintage, 2026

Synopsis

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

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Vintage
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
152992894X
ISBN 13 
9781529928945
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
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