A Turn to Lived Experience
The study, practice, and knowledge of big ideas in psychology and religion are shifting and changing in the twenty-first century. One of the most substantial changes is that deep thinking about big ideas demands an engagement with the lived experience of real people and situations.
Lent VI
Standing in the den two nights ago my husband rubbed his hands through his hair, looked at me and said, โHave I come undone?โ I said, โWell, Iโm sure you have. Listen to this. . . .โ I opened a book and read something Iโd found earlier that very day. Stumbled across it really. โLetโs face it. We’re undone by each other. And if we’re not, we’re missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact. It may be that one wants to, or does, but it may also be that despite oneโs best efforts, one is undone, in the face of the otherโ (Judith Butler, Undoing Gender, 2004, 19).
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