ABSTRACT
This chapter describes Marion Milner’s original and substantial contribution to clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis by attempting to follow her professional path, dwelling on a few points of particular interest in terms of her theory of knowledge and her psychoanalytic practice. Concerning Milner’s psychoanalytic training, it suffices to recall that she began training at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis in 1940, doing a training analysis with Silvia Payne, after an initial, unsatisfactory Jungian analysis with Irma Putnam in Boston, seen two or three times a week for three months in early 1928. It should be noted that although in retrospect Milner considered this experience as not really analytical, the resonance with Jungian thought clearly emerges from her writings.
