May 30th 2008 08:12
In a recent post on Webitz I wrote about politicians on Facebook, and in the process finished up discovering I was already a member of Facebook from some time back. Must have signed up for it at some earlier point and then never bothered to go any further.
It’s got a good layout, and in general is easy to find your way around. (I certainly prefer it to MySpace, which seems to me to be badly laid out by comparison.)
As my geeky son said, (he who can’t be bothered with fiddling around with trivia like Facebook – even though he’s on it (under an alias!)) – Facebook is good for the way it invites users to created applications which everyone can get involved with. Yes, it certainly save Facebook themselves doing all the work!
Found several friends on there, plus a bunch of church people (who are also friends of course) and some family members. Can’t say it’s a place I’d spend a lot of time on, although it would be easy to do so. However, it’s gotten me back in touch with a couple of people I haven’t seen for a while – two of them were in the same homegroup as me a few years back.
On a completely different tack, I came across this abstract about an article from the (online) magazine, Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing. It’s a place where ‘classic’ articles on psychoanalysis are collected together. Of course, being a medical site, only subscribers can read the full texts, and even then only paid subscribers.
But I was intrigued by the abstract to The Biblical Book of Job: Advice to Clinicians
by Owen Renik, M.D. It reads:
Study of the Book of Job clarifies the particular adaptation to trauma that underlies the suffering of certain difficult patients. In addition, the misdirected efforts of Job's comforters in the Bible story help us understand why, with such patients, an analyst's attempts to address unconscious guilt and defences against it will prove counterproductive.
What struck me as interesting was the idea of using the Book of Job as a kind of psychoanalytic text, a not invalid approach, but one that might come to grief when God himself appears in the later stages of the story. And what does the writer, one wonders (I have to wonder, since I’m not a subscriber and am not prepared to become one just to read this particular article) make of the strange story at the beginning of Job, when the Devil himself appears and boasts he can bring Job down – and God seems almost to wager that he can’t?
A passing odd thought occurs to me: Job’s comforters (let alone Job himself) could have done with down comforters – they were sitting out on the ash heap for several days. Not the most comfortable place to park your butt!
It’s got a good layout, and in general is easy to find your way around. (I certainly prefer it to MySpace, which seems to me to be badly laid out by comparison.)
As my geeky son said, (he who can’t be bothered with fiddling around with trivia like Facebook – even though he’s on it (under an alias!)) – Facebook is good for the way it invites users to created applications which everyone can get involved with. Yes, it certainly save Facebook themselves doing all the work!
Found several friends on there, plus a bunch of church people (who are also friends of course) and some family members. Can’t say it’s a place I’d spend a lot of time on, although it would be easy to do so. However, it’s gotten me back in touch with a couple of people I haven’t seen for a while – two of them were in the same homegroup as me a few years back.
On a completely different tack, I came across this abstract about an article from the (online) magazine, Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing. It’s a place where ‘classic’ articles on psychoanalysis are collected together. Of course, being a medical site, only subscribers can read the full texts, and even then only paid subscribers.
But I was intrigued by the abstract to The Biblical Book of Job: Advice to Clinicians
by Owen Renik, M.D. It reads:
Study of the Book of Job clarifies the particular adaptation to trauma that underlies the suffering of certain difficult patients. In addition, the misdirected efforts of Job's comforters in the Bible story help us understand why, with such patients, an analyst's attempts to address unconscious guilt and defences against it will prove counterproductive.
Job's comforters sitting 'comfortably' against the wall, while poor old Job kneels on a bit of mat.
A passing odd thought occurs to me: Job’s comforters (let alone Job himself) could have done with down comforters – they were sitting out on the ash heap for several days. Not the most comfortable place to park your butt!
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