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“The Haze” recounts a moment in which a learning-disabled student’s racist comments prompted the author to instinctually evoke various mechanisms of dissociation. In attempting to prevent the moment from gaining momentum—and thus evolve into more than a half-formed assemblage of words and associations—his own consciousness recorded the instance as nothing more than a haze of impressions and half-remembered, half-dismembered fragments. Parker’s analysis utilizes his theory, existential psychoanalytic anthropology, which understands experience as an intricate, intersubjective play of symbols—a play that reverberates through mind, emotion, and culture.
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Desjarlais, R. (1994). Struggling along: The possibilities for experience among the homeless mentally ill. American Anthropologist, 96(4), 886–901.
Parker, D. M. (2015). Sartre and No Child Left Behind: An existential psychoanalytic anthropology of urban schooling. New York, NY: Rowman and Littlefield Press.
Sartre, J. P. (1993). Being and nothingness: A phenomenological essay on ontology (H. Barnes, Trans.). New York, NY: Washington Square Press. (Original work published 1943)
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Parker, D.M. (2018). The Haze. In: Travis, S., Kraehe, A., Hood, E., Lewis, T. (eds) Pedagogies in the Flesh. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59599-3_13
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