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Winnicott: Analyzing Werther

D. W. Winnicotts psychological analysis of Werther (from The Sufferings of Young Werther) based solely on my understanding of Playing and Reality.

I have been asked to consult on a case sent from a colleague, working in Germany:

A mother came to see him following her sons suicide. She professed to him that her son had a happy childhood and had never wanted for anything. The boy had been given every opportunity to pursue his passions and had actively pursued an interest in painting until the...

Lotte and the Abundance of Oranges

I believe this assignment was to compose a section from Goethes Die Leiden des jungen Werther (The Sorrows of Young Werther) from an alternate perspective.

Once, I was asked how I came up with the voice for this. All I could recall was trying to make it sound as though it had been translated from German. Thats why Lotte refers to dinner as evening bread (Abendbrot). Ich denke es ist nicht zu furchtbar (I dont think its too terrible).

This entry, to be placed directly following Werthers...

The Importance of Creativity in Advertising

When it comes to ensuring that an advertising campaign will be successful, it is important to use both creativity and research. They can work together to make a campaign stronger, but there are situations where one interferes with the other. In this paper, I will explain why creativity may be the more important element of designing a campaign.

Research is a science and as with any science, when its done correctly the results will remain the same if repeated within similar parameters. This...

Words Unto Whom: Adam Pynkhurst, Chaucer’s Owne Scriveyn

In her introduction to Chaucers Words Unto Adam, His Owne Scriveyn, published in The Riverside Chaucer, Laina Z. Gross begins with a quote from F. N. Robinson, The lines to Adam Scriveyn, which read like one of the personal epigrams of the ancients, reveal some of the anxieties which beset an author before the invention of printing. The poem could hardly be more vivid if the record searchers should succeed in discovering Adams family name(634). To this, Gross adds only, the record searchers...

Parodies, My Love: Humor in the New York School

Around 1960, a small group of poets, mostly gay men working as art critics in New York City, formed the first generation of what would come to be known as the New York School. These poets: Frank OHara, James Schuyler, Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, and Barbara Guest, bonded over their passion for painting, especially abstract expressionism, their high-spirited wit and fondness for comedy, their experiments in surrealism and fantasy, their irony, their refusal of linguistics and social decorum,...