File spoon-archives/bourdieu.archive/bourdieu_1999/bourdieu.9905, message 53


Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 15:13:00 +0100
From: maria farrell <mfarrel-AT-bigfoot.com>
Subject: Re: Bourdieu's health




Kingsley Garbett wrote:

> 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.
>

  Would it be possible to provide an English translation of the above?  Or,
at the very least, explain what on earth it is you're trying to say!

Maria Farrell
Dublin Institute of Technology

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