[Erving Goffman]
Encounters: Two Studies in the Sociology of Interaction, p41.
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Personal action is either predominantly validating, confirming, encouraging, supportive, enhancing, or it is invalidating, disconfirming, discouraging, undermining and constricting. It can be creative or destructive.
In a world where the normal condition is one of alienation, most personal action must be destructive both of one's own experience and of that of the other.
[R.D. Laing]
The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise, p.28, 29
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