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DB: yeah
AR: you know, there is one…
DB: yes
AR: there is two in Leeds (laugh), you know it’s fascinating to see (loud) is how it has
obviously become very geographic, geographically located and that will give it a
different sense of identity because you do meet people, you can go to meetings. So
for instance I’m in Birmingham, and in order to be here for nine o’clock today I left at
half past five this morning,
DB: my God (shock)
AR: just because it takes time to get places.
DB: I’m sorry about that (empathic)
AR: No, that’s fine (loud and laugh). I’m fine it’s worth doing, I thought I would
rather get here, and but for instance, if suddenly to my thinking, that in order to meet
somebody or to meet a group of people on a regular basis you have to plan a threehour
journey. You don’t go very often
DB: no, right
AR: so, so there isn’t the same community that uhm emerges whereas I guess one of
the things about America, has been that there’s been distinct communities that have
emerged that have promoted, because of being able to talk to one another
DB: yes
AR: where it has impacted a wider culture
DB: yes
AR: So thinking about (loud) your recent work, what would you say is the main thrust
of your work uhm at the moment (soft)? A lot of it is very recent in you produced
your book in 2006 and the lecture that you gave at the West Midlands two years
before that
DB: yes
AR: and I can see some of the strands in your chapter.
DB: yes I think, what I gave was in some ways, at least in part an early version of the
chapter. Uhm (pause) Yes, it feels as though my thinking is sort of continually
developing and I don’t have a sort of particular statement about psychoanalysis and
religion, but I think that what I try to think about most at the moment are to do with
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