I happened to be visiting my aunt in san francisco when the email with the proposal came, and I mentioned it to her, a research psychologist specializing in infant-parent relationships, and she said something in passing about how we are all exiles -- from childhood -- which I thought was a lovely formulation of part of the experience of adulthood.
Wednesday, 18 March 2009
exiles from childhood
for the sake of completeness, here's what I wrote to you on 21 may 08 about the project:
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The more I think about this, the more I like it. It's not just that the idea of exile illuminates the experience of adulthood (although it does) but also that the notion of growing up and 'going out into the world' provides an account of exile that is not just about loss.
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