Writer-Reader Relationships in Psychoanalysis

Chemical (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and heavy metal) levels in contaminated stormwater and sediments from a motorway dry detention pond drainage system

“…Comparison with the ICRCL guideline limit shows that a permitted threshold PAH level of 50 mg kg 21 , dry weight (for domestic areas) is exceeded for the outflow interceptor back sediment samples (64.5 mg kg 21 , dry weight). 7 Fig. 2 illustrates the variance of PAH levels in the Oxted dry detention pond sediments.…”

“…Almost all of the 16 USEPA listed PAHs were detected. Phenanthrene, fluoranthene, pyrene, benzo(a)anthracene, chrysene, benzo(b)fluoranthene, benzo(a)pyrene and benzo(g,h,i)perylene (PAH numbers 5,7,8,9,10,11, 13 and 16) were among the PAHs found at ''higher'' levels (ranging from 0.3-10.2 mg kg 21 , dry weight) in the sediment samples. PAH levels show little change along the motorway drainage silt trap (facility for reducing the levels of suspended particulate matter in the stormwater).…”

Inhibition in the dissertation writing process: Barrier, block, and impasse.

“…To our modern ear, the ideas of Bergler, which he repeated with great force over a wide number of papers (e.g., Bergler & Herzman, 1944; Bergler, 1947) and reaching its peak in his book The writer and psychoanalysis (Bergler, 1949), seem somewhat extreme. Yet, despite his naïveté or innocence in some regards, at a time when we attend so closely to issues of countertransference and intersubjectivity (e.g., Grundy, 1997), there may be, in Bergler’s ideas around the idea of writing, a kind of giving and reluctance to give that is highly significant, along with his ideas on the origins of such blocks as a masochistic orientation toward failure. That we wish to hide as much as we wish to show affects our overall orientation to acts that seem potentially creative.…”