Nothingness, Politics and Pychoanalysis: Simone Weil and Marion Milner

Explores the theme of nothingness in the lives and work of two women writers, Simone Weil and Marion Milner. Ways in which Milner and Weil were able to make a contribution to philosophy and psychoanalysis by embracing nothingness; Paradox of how the writers' influence continues to grow while that of more apparently successful theorists declines.