The thesis sets out to examine Ezra Pound's attitudes to the English Romantic tradition from ... more The thesis sets out to examine Ezra Pound's attitudes to the English Romantic tradition from its inception to his own time, with a view to discovering whether or not he looks upon it as a healthy or decrepit tradition. His attitudes are contrasted with those of his contemporaries in a study of three pairs of writers; two Romantics, Keats and Byron; two Victorians, Tennyson and Browning; and two Moderns, Eliot and Lawrence. By charting the changes in his outlook over his lifetime, a clear split becomes noticeable between the early apprentice poet and the later mature poet-critic interested in disseminating the knowledge and insights he has collected. The considerable deviance of his opinion from the accepted attitudes of the day demonstrates the consistency and independence of his own concepts. The conclusion of the thesis is that, in finding the English tradition to be decrepit, Pound does not find the cause to lie in Romanticism. Rather, it is caused by a desertion, or ignoranc...
A celebrity world that receives surprisingly little attention is poker. Yet it’s one richly popul... more A celebrity world that receives surprisingly little attention is poker. Yet it’s one richly populated with its own celebrities and the celebration of success, both financial and reputational. Recently, there have been two new reasons to look at poker, and two questions that arise in the process. One reason was the release in March 2012 of a new documentary on poker, All-in: the poker movie, narrated by Hollywood star Matt Damon. The other was poker’s Black Friday on 15 April 2011, when US regulators closed down its biggest online-gambling sites, charging three major poker sites with bank fraud, illegal gambling and extensive money laundering. The first event raises the question of how celebrity is distributed within and across celebrity worlds (Ferris 2007). The second concerns the fine line between celebrity and notoriety. Poker, with its roots in gambling and its blend of luck and skill – both at reading cards and reading faces – perpetually walks the line between moral odium and moral probity. Poker certainly has its celebrities. And it attracts them from other fields. As an industry, it has become a recent and massive money-earner, currently part of a $30-billion global industry (Seibert 2011), but with all the glittering media attention and hoopla that its rise as a global leisure activity ensures. Its prolific expansion has been in two arenas: as a face-to-face game played at the table, often attended by cameras and commentary, and as an extraordinary internet phenomenon. Here, players can compete 24 hours a day through avatars or even by tireless software bots (Farnsworth and Austrin 2010). The peak of the poker year, apart from the ceaseless slew of European, American and Asian tournaments, is the World Series of Poker (WSOP), where thousands of competitors descend on poker’s home, Las Vegas, to compete, round by round, for a grand prize of millions. This central event is celebrated by the documentary All-in. The title refers to the risk involved in pushing all one’s chips in on one bet, with dazzling or crushing consequences. The drama draws celebrities who, in turn, draw the crowds. As the Fun and Poker site (n.d.) reports, ‘Celebs at the WSOP seem to be the focus on everyone’s eyes, particularly those that are new to poker’. The movie observes them not only watching, but playing. The site adds there are two kinds of poker celebrities: ‘those who have become a celebrity through poker’, listing luminaries like Doyle Brunson and Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson, but also Hollywood stars – Ben Affleck, Jack Black, Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Carrie Fisher and Daniel Baldwin, to name just a few.
2 The tyranny of transparent accounting: Corporate face and Levinasian ethics as a political crit... more 2 The tyranny of transparent accounting: Corporate face and Levinasian ethics as a political critique of business practice
Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Psychodrama Association Journal, 2013
What has containment to do with the vitality of the psychodramatic method? In this article, John ... more What has containment to do with the vitality of the psychodramatic method? In this article, John Farnsworth recalls a vivid demonstration by Max Clayton in 2002 of how containment and flow relate to each other. Max also raised important questions about how closely psychodrama and psychotherapy relate through these concepts. The article investigates each of these concerns, illustrating them by investigating how boundary and flow appear in different settings, whether with individuals, groups, face-to-face or online.
Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Psychodrama Association Journal, 2003
Review(s) of: The Action Manual: Techniques for Enlivening Group Process and Individual Counselli... more Review(s) of: The Action Manual: Techniques for Enlivening Group Process and Individual Counselling, by Liz White, (2002) YWCA Life Skills Publications Department, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, http://www.ywcator.org/lifeskills/publications/actionmanual.htm.
Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Psychodrama Association Journal, 2011
Psychodrama and electronic technologies seem unlikely bedfellows. As this paper demonstrates, the... more Psychodrama and electronic technologies seem unlikely bedfellows. As this paper demonstrates, they are, in fact, made for each other though surprisingly little has been written about their combined potential. Drawing on vignettes and case examples as illustration, John Farnsworth demonstrates how effective supervision can take place in the absence of a physical psychodrama stage. He describes the way in which he uses all aspects of the psychodrama method via email, phone, digital and online communications, to create warm, functional working relationships. Psychodramatists are invited to reflect on the way that psychodrama can and will be used in the emerging vibrant electronic worlds of the future.
Ata: Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand
This review essay examines relational psychoanalysis by looking at examples from clinical practic... more This review essay examines relational psychoanalysis by looking at examples from clinical practice and commenting on its relationship to other forms of therapeutic work. It does this through a discussion of individual and group work and by exploring the complex background out of which the relational paradigm has emerged.
Ata: Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand
We outline a practical approach to psychodynamic formulation to show how useful it can be within ... more We outline a practical approach to psychodynamic formulation to show how useful it can be within the demands of ordinary clinical practice. To do so, we break down the components of a dynamic formulation using a variety of examples. We draw on the Triangle of Insight (Jacobs, 2006) and the Triangle of Persons (Malan, 1979) as our main model of formulation and compare it to other approaches. By doing so, we aim to illustrate how formulation is a flexible, effective tool for therapeutic assessment. The article also outlines a way of thinking through written case formulation, discussed primarily through an extended case example. Waitara Ka huaina e māua he tirohanga aropā ki te tauirahanga hinengaro kia mōhiotia ai tōna painga i roto i ngā nonoi o te mahi haumanu. Kia taea ai ka whāia ētahi tauira hei arohaenga i ngā waehanga tātainga hikareia. Ka huri ki te Mātauranga ā-Tapatoru (Jacobs, 2006) me te Tapatorunga ā-Tangata (Malan, 1979) hei whainga tauira matua tātai ka whakataurite ki ...
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. Penn State University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Interdisciplinary Literary Studies.
The thesis sets out to examine Ezra Pound's attitudes to the English Romantic tradition from ... more The thesis sets out to examine Ezra Pound's attitudes to the English Romantic tradition from its inception to his own time, with a view to discovering whether or not he looks upon it as a healthy or decrepit tradition. His attitudes are contrasted with those of his contemporaries in a study of three pairs of writers; two Romantics, Keats and Byron; two Victorians, Tennyson and Browning; and two Moderns, Eliot and Lawrence. By charting the changes in his outlook over his lifetime, a clear split becomes noticeable between the early apprentice poet and the later mature poet-critic interested in disseminating the knowledge and insights he has collected. The considerable deviance of his opinion from the accepted attitudes of the day demonstrates the consistency and independence of his own concepts. The conclusion of the thesis is that, in finding the English tradition to be decrepit, Pound does not find the cause to lie in Romanticism. Rather, it is caused by a desertion, or ignoranc...
A celebrity world that receives surprisingly little attention is poker. Yet it’s one richly popul... more A celebrity world that receives surprisingly little attention is poker. Yet it’s one richly populated with its own celebrities and the celebration of success, both financial and reputational. Recently, there have been two new reasons to look at poker, and two questions that arise in the process. One reason was the release in March 2012 of a new documentary on poker, All-in: the poker movie, narrated by Hollywood star Matt Damon. The other was poker’s Black Friday on 15 April 2011, when US regulators closed down its biggest online-gambling sites, charging three major poker sites with bank fraud, illegal gambling and extensive money laundering. The first event raises the question of how celebrity is distributed within and across celebrity worlds (Ferris 2007). The second concerns the fine line between celebrity and notoriety. Poker, with its roots in gambling and its blend of luck and skill – both at reading cards and reading faces – perpetually walks the line between moral odium and moral probity. Poker certainly has its celebrities. And it attracts them from other fields. As an industry, it has become a recent and massive money-earner, currently part of a $30-billion global industry (Seibert 2011), but with all the glittering media attention and hoopla that its rise as a global leisure activity ensures. Its prolific expansion has been in two arenas: as a face-to-face game played at the table, often attended by cameras and commentary, and as an extraordinary internet phenomenon. Here, players can compete 24 hours a day through avatars or even by tireless software bots (Farnsworth and Austrin 2010). The peak of the poker year, apart from the ceaseless slew of European, American and Asian tournaments, is the World Series of Poker (WSOP), where thousands of competitors descend on poker’s home, Las Vegas, to compete, round by round, for a grand prize of millions. This central event is celebrated by the documentary All-in. The title refers to the risk involved in pushing all one’s chips in on one bet, with dazzling or crushing consequences. The drama draws celebrities who, in turn, draw the crowds. As the Fun and Poker site (n.d.) reports, ‘Celebs at the WSOP seem to be the focus on everyone’s eyes, particularly those that are new to poker’. The movie observes them not only watching, but playing. The site adds there are two kinds of poker celebrities: ‘those who have become a celebrity through poker’, listing luminaries like Doyle Brunson and Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson, but also Hollywood stars – Ben Affleck, Jack Black, Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Carrie Fisher and Daniel Baldwin, to name just a few.
2 The tyranny of transparent accounting: Corporate face and Levinasian ethics as a political crit... more 2 The tyranny of transparent accounting: Corporate face and Levinasian ethics as a political critique of business practice
Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Psychodrama Association Journal, 2013
What has containment to do with the vitality of the psychodramatic method? In this article, John ... more What has containment to do with the vitality of the psychodramatic method? In this article, John Farnsworth recalls a vivid demonstration by Max Clayton in 2002 of how containment and flow relate to each other. Max also raised important questions about how closely psychodrama and psychotherapy relate through these concepts. The article investigates each of these concerns, illustrating them by investigating how boundary and flow appear in different settings, whether with individuals, groups, face-to-face or online.
Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Psychodrama Association Journal, 2003
Review(s) of: The Action Manual: Techniques for Enlivening Group Process and Individual Counselli... more Review(s) of: The Action Manual: Techniques for Enlivening Group Process and Individual Counselling, by Liz White, (2002) YWCA Life Skills Publications Department, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, http://www.ywcator.org/lifeskills/publications/actionmanual.htm.
Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Psychodrama Association Journal, 2011
Psychodrama and electronic technologies seem unlikely bedfellows. As this paper demonstrates, the... more Psychodrama and electronic technologies seem unlikely bedfellows. As this paper demonstrates, they are, in fact, made for each other though surprisingly little has been written about their combined potential. Drawing on vignettes and case examples as illustration, John Farnsworth demonstrates how effective supervision can take place in the absence of a physical psychodrama stage. He describes the way in which he uses all aspects of the psychodrama method via email, phone, digital and online communications, to create warm, functional working relationships. Psychodramatists are invited to reflect on the way that psychodrama can and will be used in the emerging vibrant electronic worlds of the future.
Ata: Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand
This review essay examines relational psychoanalysis by looking at examples from clinical practic... more This review essay examines relational psychoanalysis by looking at examples from clinical practice and commenting on its relationship to other forms of therapeutic work. It does this through a discussion of individual and group work and by exploring the complex background out of which the relational paradigm has emerged.
Ata: Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand
We outline a practical approach to psychodynamic formulation to show how useful it can be within ... more We outline a practical approach to psychodynamic formulation to show how useful it can be within the demands of ordinary clinical practice. To do so, we break down the components of a dynamic formulation using a variety of examples. We draw on the Triangle of Insight (Jacobs, 2006) and the Triangle of Persons (Malan, 1979) as our main model of formulation and compare it to other approaches. By doing so, we aim to illustrate how formulation is a flexible, effective tool for therapeutic assessment. The article also outlines a way of thinking through written case formulation, discussed primarily through an extended case example. Waitara Ka huaina e māua he tirohanga aropā ki te tauirahanga hinengaro kia mōhiotia ai tōna painga i roto i ngā nonoi o te mahi haumanu. Kia taea ai ka whāia ētahi tauira hei arohaenga i ngā waehanga tātainga hikareia. Ka huri ki te Mātauranga ā-Tapatoru (Jacobs, 2006) me te Tapatorunga ā-Tangata (Malan, 1979) hei whainga tauira matua tātai ka whakataurite ki ...
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. Penn State University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Interdisciplinary Literary Studies.
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