ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes a rereading of Milner’s work and writings, to read some of the theoretical and methodological paradigms underlying his work through contemporary eyes, both from a more psychoanalytic point of view and from a more general anthropological and epistemological perspective. During the analytic encounter, the therapist’s words are often less important than their psychophysical presence, that is, a kind of deliberate suffusing of their entire body (not just the head, which is a rational-logical thought) with their own consciousness. This body-concentration is a particular type of contemplative and deliberate focus able to enrich the outer reality of certain qualities matching those of the observing subject. Art creations, drawings, and communications, in general, are a kind of bridge toward the subject’s acceptance of the otherness of the external world. Whereas until the mid-twentieth century the creative moment had been regarded as a fragment within a more ordinary everyday life.
