‘The Unconscious was Another Word for Inspiration’: Adam Phillips on Marion Milner – Singh – 2021 – Critical Quarterly – Wiley Online Library 2

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/criq.12644

There’s something else that I find unusual in her writing, when I compare it to other psychoanalysts – there’s this idea almost that the unconscious can be something that’s helpful and that can be relied upon and trusted. Which again seems unusual to me, because I’m so used to this idea of unconscious that wrecks your plan or gets in the way.

AP:Well its very Jungian. I don’t mean she got it from Jung. But she did believe in a sort of creative unconscious, and an unconscious that was like a good mother