Editing Lucretius

Marcus Deufert, Prolegomena zur Editio Teubneriana des Lukrez. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 124, Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2018, 281 pp., ISBN 978-3-11-054998-0. Marcus Deufert, Kritischer Kommentar zu Lukrezens De rerum natura. Texte und Kommentare, Band 56, Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2018. x, 516 pp., ISBN 978-3-11-041471-4. Marcus Deufert, Titus Lucretius Carus. De Rerum Natura, Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019, xlix+314 pp., ISBN 978-3-11-026251-3

The Epicurean Parasite: Horace, Satires 1.1-3

We have learned a great deal in recent years about reading Horace\u27s satires; there is now widespread agreement that the speaker of the satires is himself a character within them, a persona. Such a persona may be most effective when it has obvious connections with its creator, but that fact does not preclude the exaggeration of reality, or even its complete inversion. For Horace the implications of this approach are exciting: instead of a poet discoursing with cheerful earnestness on morality, on poetry and on his daily life, we have a fictional character, whom we do not have to take seriously at all.The three diatribe satires present us with a character so absurd that they have been taken, I think rightly, as parodies. Although the poems were once appreciated as effective moralising sermons, even their admirers found it hard to justify the lack of intellectual coherence, to say nothing of the astonishing vulgarity of the second satire. As parodies, however, the poems are wonderfully successful. The speaker trots out a series of banalities: ‘people should be content with who they are’; ‘people should not go to extremes’; ‘people should be consistent’. But he invariably gets distracted, goes off on tangential rants, and makes a fool of himself. The moralist of the first three satires is, to put it bluntly, a jerk

Est locus uni cuique suus: City and Status in Horace’s Satires 1.8 and 1.9

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An Application of the Concept of the Therapeutic Alliance To Sadomasochistic Pathology

This paper traces the history of the therapeutic alliance concept, examining how it has been used and misused, at times elevated to a central position and at others rejected altogether. The loss of this concept created a vacuum in classical psychoanalysis that has been filled by rival theories. The continuing usefulness of looking at the treatment process through the lens of the therapeutic alliance, particularly in relation to the manifold difficulties of working with sadomasochistic pathology, is suggested. To this end, revisions of the theory of the therapeutic alliance are suggested to address some of the difficulties that have arisen in conceptualizing this aspect of the therapeutic relationship, and to provide an integrated dynamic model for working with patients at each phase of treatment. This revised model acknowledges the complexity of the domain and encompasses the multiple tasks, functions, partners, and treatment phases involved. The utility of the revised theory is illustrated in application to understanding the sadomasochistic, omnipotent resistances of a female patient through the phases of her analysis.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/66889/2/10.1177_00030651980460031301.pd

Linguistic Naturalism and Natural Style. From Varro and Cicero to Dionysius of Halicarnassus

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Catullus, Ennius, and the Poetics of Allusion

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