University Years
I entered university in my late thirties through a special entrance scheme designed for students whose early education had been limited or disrupted. What began as an experiment soon became a deeply formative period of intellectual recovery and growth.
These years gave me more than formal qualifications: they provided discipline, confidence, and a renewed pleasure in sustained thinking and writing. The work gathered here consists of a small selection of essays and projects from that period, chosen not for grades or completeness, but for what they reveal about learning reclaimed later in life.
This essay was written in 1999 for English IA at LaTrobe University, Australia. It was the Fourth Exercise for the year. The title for the task is as follows:
"A Game of Chess': Comment on the stylistic transitions in this section of "The Waste Land. How effective do you think they are, and to what extent is the stylistic variety of this section typical of the poem as a whole?"
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'The Mutative Relationship in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy'
A short thesis arguing that the relationship between therapist and patient is, in itself, a change agent.
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This essay was written in 1999 for English IA at LaTrobe University, Australia. It was the Fourth Exercise for the year. The title for the task is as follows:
"A Game of Chess": Comment on the stylistic transitions in this section of "The Waste Land. How effective do you think they are, and to what extent is the stylistic variety of this section typical of the poem as a whole?"