Asylum
rooms, suites of rooms, buildings, plants
in line. Their encompassing or total character
intercourse with the outside and to departure
such as locked doors, high walls, barbed wire, cliffs, water, forests, moors
conflicts, discreditings, failures
of assimilation. If cultural change
the outside. Thus, if the inmates stay
victory. They create and sustain
a particular kind of tension
dangers to it, with the welfare
jails, penitentiaries, P.O.W. camps, concentration camps
some worklike task and justifying themselves
army barracks, ships, boarding schools, work camps, colonial compounds, large mansions
abbeys, monasteries, convents
starting point. By anchoring
them; what is distinctive
attributes. In speaking of
outside world. Each grouping
bitter, secretive, untrustworthy
condescending, high handed, and mean
superior and righteous
inferior, weak, blameworthy and guilty
Even talk across the boundaries
may be conducted in a special tone of voice
swamped. On ward 30
unless Dr. Baker
himself asked for them
persevering, nagging, delusional group—
“worry warts” “nuisances” “bird dogs”
in the attendant's slang
passage of information, especially information
excluded from knowledge of the decisions taken regarding his fate
a special basis of distance and control over inmates
restrictions of contact presumably
worlds develop jogging alongside
bounds. But to say
work, then, this
outside. There
it. This is
ceremonial, payments, such
required, induced not by reward
can buy; all needs
staff; here
They say. Is it
us? For by
hour; paid to work, paid
sleep: always those halfpence
up. Impossible, therefore to dignify a job
it well. It must
waiting, but another job
self respect. (Staff members,
the family. Family life
living, but in fact
existence. Conversely,
culture” (to modify
of being “in” or “on the inside” does not exist apart
home world. Upon entrance
abasements, degradation, humiliations and profanations
is mortified
of self. In civil life
taboo. Although
home. The role
such. It may not be
up, at a
cycle, the time
advancement, in
“civil death”
world. The process
well. We
life history, photographing, weighing, fingerprinting, assigning
numbers, searching, listing personal possessions for storage,
undressing, bathing, disinfecting, haircutting
nakedness. Leaving off
on, with
clothing, combs, towels, soap, shaving sets, bathing facilities
disfigurement, beatings, shock therapy, surgery
dispossession
integrity. At admission
way. Given
movements, postures, and stances
demeaning. Any
regulation, command or task
that forces
pose, so he may
“sir.” Another
beg, importune, humbly ask
a daily round of life
his body, his immediate actions, his thoughts
clear of contact
violated; the boundary
relationships. (Similarly,
hold oneself off
every gesture and nuance of error
forms, for these
over: forcing upon
men of his own type and badge
its effect, with
a disruption
his arts
attacks. The individual
situation; he
society, when
of self, he is
sullenness, failure to offer usual signs of deference, sotto
voce profaning aides, fugitive expressions of contempt, irony
derision. Compliance
activity, citing
society, audience
avowals and implicit claims
thrown up
well-oriented, antagonistic
process, since
doctrine. A “permissive”
situation is collapsed
itself, and he
action. A second assault
of regulation and tyrannization
judged. Beyond this
pace. He need not
fit into
regulations and judgements
by staff; the inmate's
above, especially
unthinkingly
“One!”
“Two!”
“Three!”
shirts on
pants at
shoes at
any noise, like
attention, hands
thumbs even
face or head
enforced. No
official, visitor, guard
beyond sight
still and hidden
smoking, shaving, going to the toilet, telephoning,
spending money, mailing letters
submissive or suppliant
teased, denied, questioned at length, not noticed
put off
able yet lacking
unsupplied. Even
indefinitely, while
dress, deportment, manners
the press of
enveloping tissue of constraint
school, but
certain rights
sanction. (This arrangement,
outside, the audit
work, or
diffuse, novel, and strictly enforced
ones, to live
the consequence of breaking
disrupt or defile
over his world—that he is a person
a soft bed
quietness at night
“pretty please”
jump up for it
his will. Less ceremonialized
superfluous. And instead
restrictions by renunciation, beating by self-flagellation, inquisition by confession
to talk; on the outside
such rights
the building of a world
culture, and yet
sharing; it almost
cigarettes, candy, newspapers
animals and children
components, put together
power. This power
ridicule, viscious ribbing, corporal punishment
“messing up.” Messing up
escape), getting caught
Fights, drunkenness, attempted suicide, failure at
examinations, gambling, insubordination, homosexuality,
improper leave taking, participation in collective riots
cussedness, villany, or “sickness”
a vocabulary
“the angles”
“ins”
as by
objects, then
decent human beings
pervades
slogan shouting, booing, tray thumping, mass food rejection
mutinies; but these
plateaus of disinvolvement
broken (as they
disciplined, moralistic, monochromatic
sponsor an ideal
it cool.” This
cramped, arduous
engendered. The low
process, creates
a story, a line, a sad tale
means of accounting
conversation and concern
tactful, suppressing
misdeeds, and the refusal
on, and
wasted or destroyed or taken
“done” or “marked” or “put in” or “pulled”
hard. This time
sense
dead and heavy hanging
field game, dances, orchestra and band playing, choral singing
lectures, art classes or woodworking classes, card playing
industrial alcohol, nutmeg or ginger
of dead sea in
vivid, encapturing
outside. This
sharp smell of fresh air
pass
the loss or failure
circles from which
Used by permission of the author.
in line. Their encompassing or total character
intercourse with the outside and to departure
such as locked doors, high walls, barbed wire, cliffs, water, forests, moors
conflicts, discreditings, failures
of assimilation. If cultural change
the outside. Thus, if the inmates stay
victory. They create and sustain
a particular kind of tension
dangers to it, with the welfare
jails, penitentiaries, P.O.W. camps, concentration camps
some worklike task and justifying themselves
army barracks, ships, boarding schools, work camps, colonial compounds, large mansions
abbeys, monasteries, convents
starting point. By anchoring
them; what is distinctive
attributes. In speaking of
outside world. Each grouping
bitter, secretive, untrustworthy
condescending, high handed, and mean
superior and righteous
inferior, weak, blameworthy and guilty
Even talk across the boundaries
may be conducted in a special tone of voice
swamped. On ward 30
unless Dr. Baker
himself asked for them
persevering, nagging, delusional group—
“worry warts” “nuisances” “bird dogs”
in the attendant's slang
passage of information, especially information
excluded from knowledge of the decisions taken regarding his fate
a special basis of distance and control over inmates
restrictions of contact presumably
worlds develop jogging alongside
bounds. But to say
work, then, this
outside. There
it. This is
ceremonial, payments, such
required, induced not by reward
can buy; all needs
staff; here
They say. Is it
us? For by
hour; paid to work, paid
sleep: always those halfpence
up. Impossible, therefore to dignify a job
it well. It must
waiting, but another job
self respect. (Staff members,
the family. Family life
living, but in fact
existence. Conversely,
culture” (to modify
of being “in” or “on the inside” does not exist apart
home world. Upon entrance
abasements, degradation, humiliations and profanations
is mortified
of self. In civil life
taboo. Although
home. The role
such. It may not be
up, at a
cycle, the time
advancement, in
“civil death”
world. The process
well. We
life history, photographing, weighing, fingerprinting, assigning
numbers, searching, listing personal possessions for storage,
undressing, bathing, disinfecting, haircutting
nakedness. Leaving off
on, with
clothing, combs, towels, soap, shaving sets, bathing facilities
disfigurement, beatings, shock therapy, surgery
dispossession
integrity. At admission
way. Given
movements, postures, and stances
demeaning. Any
regulation, command or task
that forces
pose, so he may
“sir.” Another
beg, importune, humbly ask
a daily round of life
his body, his immediate actions, his thoughts
clear of contact
violated; the boundary
relationships. (Similarly,
hold oneself off
every gesture and nuance of error
forms, for these
over: forcing upon
men of his own type and badge
its effect, with
a disruption
his arts
attacks. The individual
situation; he
society, when
of self, he is
sullenness, failure to offer usual signs of deference, sotto
voce profaning aides, fugitive expressions of contempt, irony
derision. Compliance
activity, citing
society, audience
avowals and implicit claims
thrown up
well-oriented, antagonistic
process, since
doctrine. A “permissive”
situation is collapsed
itself, and he
action. A second assault
of regulation and tyrannization
judged. Beyond this
pace. He need not
fit into
regulations and judgements
by staff; the inmate's
above, especially
unthinkingly
“One!”
“Two!”
“Three!”
shirts on
pants at
shoes at
any noise, like
attention, hands
thumbs even
face or head
enforced. No
official, visitor, guard
beyond sight
still and hidden
smoking, shaving, going to the toilet, telephoning,
spending money, mailing letters
submissive or suppliant
teased, denied, questioned at length, not noticed
put off
able yet lacking
unsupplied. Even
indefinitely, while
dress, deportment, manners
the press of
enveloping tissue of constraint
school, but
certain rights
sanction. (This arrangement,
outside, the audit
work, or
diffuse, novel, and strictly enforced
ones, to live
the consequence of breaking
disrupt or defile
over his world—that he is a person
a soft bed
quietness at night
“pretty please”
jump up for it
his will. Less ceremonialized
superfluous. And instead
restrictions by renunciation, beating by self-flagellation, inquisition by confession
to talk; on the outside
such rights
the building of a world
culture, and yet
sharing; it almost
cigarettes, candy, newspapers
animals and children
components, put together
power. This power
ridicule, viscious ribbing, corporal punishment
“messing up.” Messing up
escape), getting caught
Fights, drunkenness, attempted suicide, failure at
examinations, gambling, insubordination, homosexuality,
improper leave taking, participation in collective riots
cussedness, villany, or “sickness”
a vocabulary
“the angles”
“ins”
as by
objects, then
decent human beings
pervades
slogan shouting, booing, tray thumping, mass food rejection
mutinies; but these
plateaus of disinvolvement
broken (as they
disciplined, moralistic, monochromatic
sponsor an ideal
it cool.” This
cramped, arduous
engendered. The low
process, creates
a story, a line, a sad tale
means of accounting
conversation and concern
tactful, suppressing
misdeeds, and the refusal
on, and
wasted or destroyed or taken
“done” or “marked” or “put in” or “pulled”
hard. This time
sense
dead and heavy hanging
field game, dances, orchestra and band playing, choral singing
lectures, art classes or woodworking classes, card playing
industrial alcohol, nutmeg or ginger
of dead sea in
vivid, encapturing
outside. This
sharp smell of fresh air
pass
the loss or failure
circles from which
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