From: "Gabriel Ash" <Gabriel.Ash.1-AT-ND.EDU>
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 96 22:38:58 
Subject: Re: Habitus, Field and Capital.


On Fri, 9 Aug 1996 16:47:52 GMT, Michael Kelly wrote:

>A real challenge to apply this to rapists.
>
>The difficulty is in discussing habitus *without* field, since, the 
>habitus internalises the 'rules of the game' of the field. I'm not 
>sure what the rapists' field would be - perhaps interpersonal 
>relations, perhaps a particular male subculture, perhaps there might 
>be several relevant fields.

I may be completely off track, but perhaps *some*, not all, not even most, 
rapist behaviour, can be connected to the field of matrimonial strategies. 
something like an attempt
to symbollicly  'marry up', across extremely high differences of capital, 
mostly symbolic. 
The problem would be to create a tool that would connect Freudian
notions of substitution with habitus. 
That would be another kind of Habitus mismatch, which is different 
but not unrelated to the idea of 'time-lag'. One could begin doing this by 
thinking about Bourdieu's notion of analogy (Le sens pratique).
 
Some inspiration to this idea comes from the character of 
Stanely Kowalsky in "Streetcar named desire".


 
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Gabriel Ash
Notre-Dame
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Gabriel Ash
Notre-Dame
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