Cultural Texts and Endopsychic Scripts

Artists, an intermediary species: they at least fix an image of that which ought to be; they are productive, to the extent that they actually alter and transform; unlike men of knowledge, who leave everything as it is.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 318

The place where cultural experience is located is in the potential space between the individual and the environment.

—D.W. Winnicott, 8

Thus we oscillate between thinking ourselves out through the selection of objects that promote inner experience and being thought out, so to speak, by the environment which plays upon the self.

—Christopher Bollas, Being a Character, 4

We are now almost face to face with culture’s double bind – a certain slippage or splitting between human artifice and culture’s discursive agency. To be true to a self, one must learn to be a little untrue, out-of-joint with the signification of cultural generalizability.

—Homi Bhabha, 137