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To have been at the margins is to have been in contact with danger, to have been at a source of power. There are pollution powers which inhere in the structure of ideas itself and which punish a symbolic breaking of that which should be joined or a joining of that which should be separate. A polluting person is always in the wrong. He has... crossed some line which should not have been crossed and this displacement unleashes danger. The power which produces a danger for careless humans is very evidently a power inhering in the structure of ideas, a power by which the structure is expected to protect itself.
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© 1996 Christine Gallant
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Gallant, C. (1996). Introduction. In: Tabooed Jung. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230373761_5
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