American archetypal psychologist James Hillman writes that depression can be healthy for the soul, insofar as "it brings refuge, limitation, focus, gravity, weight, and humble powerlessness".
But "Witches" resolves what the Hillary encounter did not — without capitulating its anarchy, it brings into focus the show's stoned, political soul.
The concept of social remittances, and the array of symbolic exchanges taking place in transnational spaces that it brings into focus, marked a turning point in migration scholarship that, until that time, had largely focused on financial transfers.
The paradox of satire is that, by distorting, it brings into focus; by flattening out, it heightens.
But the issues about self and society that it brings into focus have always been with us.
Realising that unemployment is driven more by the macroeconomy than morality is important because it brings the focus back to where it should be.
Even unbuilt, it brings into focus the philosophical issues Eisenman's work addresses and his increasing success in conveying them in architectural terms.
On the other hand, it brings into focus the morality of welfare reform, and here too IDS finds himself on shaky ground.
It brings into focus a cohort of abolitionists who were engaged in a tense struggle with practitioners of the rising disciplines of biology and ethnology.
This is no doubt frightening, because it brings into focus a divide that both of you may have avoided fully acknowledging to this point.
