Celine Nguyen on Substack

The writer and psychoanalyst Marion Milner, on the value of writing and journaling: I had often thought that novelists and poets had a special advantage in learning how to live, their writings providing them with an instrument that most of us were denied. By being able to dramatize their own difficulties they were in a... See more

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