Recent discussion of your style has alerted us to something we should pay more attention to: that form and substance are often inseparable in expression. If we insist that the child or the psychotic speak in our language is this helpful. Can we not be humble in the reception of the other's message (the Judaic ethic of Levinas) or suspend anxiety while deciphering the incomprehensible (as an ethnographer). The lover, the poet, the patient often speak to break through our own resistance - in order to achieve what...
"Paradoxically, intimacy is violence, for it does not respect the isolated ego" (Georges Bataille)
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