tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27602223.post114686274495761805..comments2024-02-15T07:41:44.794-05:00Comments on The Freudian Petticoat: LiminalityPamphiliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709191371678901051noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27602223.post-1147320914602745542006-05-11T00:15:00.000-04:002006-05-11T00:15:00.000-04:00Welcome, Iris!I agree with you, but only to an ext...Welcome, Iris!<BR/><BR/>I agree with you, but only to an extent. When you are forced into a liminal position, and cannot seem to get further than the threshold, it's not very much fun. Because you're sort of "neither, nor,"-- those above you place you behind the threshold, and those below you place you over it. The original posting was about being an in-between (postdoctoral) scholar, and feeling caught between graduates and faculty. Grads saw me as faculty, faculty kind of treated me a bit like a grad student. It wasn't fun.Pamphiliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07709191371678901051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27602223.post-1147235203650061462006-05-10T00:26:00.000-04:002006-05-10T00:26:00.000-04:00Hmmm. Liminality is such a lovely word. A state ...Hmmm. Liminality is such a lovely word. A state of being in between. I like the idea of thresholds, actually - flexible spaces for movement - foreground, background, across and through. While I have had my own frustrations with liminality, I also feel a certain freedom of expression there. If one chooses this flexibility, it means we can move across these thresholds into various parts of ourselves, keeping them as private, or as public, as we choose, rather than being boxed in for someone else's perceptual convenience. I'm all for keeping them guessing!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com