This chapter focuses on the writings of Marion Milner. Like Eliot in her essays, Milner laments the inadequacy of cultural resource available to support a creative life; but unlike Eliot in her essays, Milner is on the lookout for new uses for vulnerability. If the resources of the strong only serve to suppress the capacities and perceptions of those who are marginalized, then what use can they be to the weak? Though the chapter considers her diary books in some detail, its focus is on how their concerns with a freedom to see and feel for oneself, and the uses of vulnerability, shape her analytic work. In particular, how this work calls for a clinical sensibility with striking affinities to the tact of the nineteenth-century essayists described in this book.