Graham Little
Biographic Data
| ID | 4372974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graham Little |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graham |
| FAMILY NAME | Little |
| SIGNATURE | LITTLE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Learning to Live with 'I Want What is Best for Me'
Bion, Small Groups and the Analysis of Political Eras
Ifirst read Bion's Experiences in Groups (I961) fifteen years ago. The three groups, Fight-flight, Dependency and Pairing, highlighted for me the styles of three Australian political leaders, Malcolm Fraser, Jim Cairns and Gough Whitlam, who seemed to share between them much of the action in Australian politics in the 1970s. I enlarge on this here and extend the application of Bion's Basic Assumptions to the analysis of political eras in other pa…
Political Ensembles
Ambivalence, Dilemma, and Paradox
A theory of how individuals establish connection with other individualsconfirming their own identity and arranging social activityis the basis for a typology of leader-folio wer relations. Leaders both exemplify and give effect to their supporters' view of what it is to be a person and how social relations must be arranged. One leader-follower set sees the individual as essentially competitive and made social only through structure, i.e., rules a…
Ambivalence, Dilemma, and Paradox
A theory of how individuals establish connection with other individualsconfirming their own identity and arranging social activityis the basis for a typology of leader-folio wer relations. Leaders both exemplify and give effect to their supporters' view of what it is to be a person and how social relations must be arranged. One leader-follower set sees the individual as essentially competitive and made social only through structure, i.e., rules a…
Political Ensembles
Bion, Small Groups and the Analysis of Political Eras
Ifirst read Bion's Experiences in Groups (I961) fifteen years ago. The three groups, Fight-flight, Dependency and Pairing, highlighted for me the styles of three Australian political leaders, Malcolm Fraser, Jim Cairns and Gough Whitlam, who seemed to share between them much of the action in Australian politics in the 1970s. I enlarge on this here and extend the application of Bion's Basic Assumptions to the analysis of political eras in other pa…
Learning to Live with 'I Want What is Best for Me'
Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Action (physics (1 work) · Ambivalence (1 work)