File spoon-archives/bourdieu.archive/bourdieu_1999/bourdieu.9905, message 51


Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 21:28:26 +0900
From: Kingsley Garbett <kgarbett-AT-picknowl.com.au>
Subject: Bourdieu's health


The wolves are gathering, the vultures hover.  Are we all welcome to the
feast that will shortly be held to haggle over the bones?

What a wonderful exemplification of the theory of practice of this great
genius our dissonant discourses are.  We have created a field of
struggles in which we are battling to assert a truth and for the right
to assert what that truth is.  Unfortunately, we have all forgotten
another aspect of the theory as we each vie with one another from the
position of our taken-for-granted worlds, that in our practice as
analysts we must eschew the taken for granted and reflect continually on
where we ourselves are positioned in the field of struggles.

As one of my teachers once remarked, “before you call some one ass head,
take care that you yourself are not speaking through bully Bottom's
mask”.

Kingsley Garbett


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