For two decades, Bergler studied writers who suffered from "neurotic inhibitions of productivity," in an attempt to determine why they were unable to create — and what, if anything, could be done about it.
For me, this goes against the spirit of studying writers' studies.
"It's like studying writers by studying their use of words, their grammar.
One student commented on the value of studying writers with whom there is no immediate sense of identification or shared belief.
I would collect VIBE magazines and study writers I liked, and I started writing in my school notebooks.
He spent a year working on science and technology pieces before taking a salaried job as a case-study writer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
According to Andrew Slatter, a design and gender-studies writer from the London University of the Arts: "Today there is a willingness to create and name types, though the media-led ideal and the street reality are often very different.
One Buffy studies writer draws comparisons between Dr. Walsh and Victor Frankenstein, both of whom build monsters out of body parts "to compensate for human vulnerability".
"We need proactive solutions, and praying and churches is not the answer". But for so long, the church has been the only answer, says Los Angeles racial studies writer and lecturer Sikivu Hutchinson.
According to film studies writer Linda Badley, this episode, and season four's "Home", foreshadow Scully's impending motherhood and her realization, in following episodes "Christmas Carol" and "Emily", that she has been used to create a human-alien hybrid, Emily.
