Space and Belonging
<p>Again, my anthropological studies inspired this, because I came to see how brutal the family and social units are in countries other than the US. For instance, in India, where public space is a kind of ersatz heaven, those with psychological issues (typically when they suffer a psychotic break which is almost always induced by their material conditions—more on that later) are simply relegated to a kind of ontological no man’s land. Marrow and Luhrmann, in their piece, “The Zone of Social Abandonment in Cultural Geography: On the Street in the United States, Inside the Family in India,” illustrate these disparities strikingly. It’s literally to the point where a young woman will suffer an illness onset shortly before marriage, with everything from her family figuring out ways to lie, to the psychiatric institutions that are supposed to cure her overnight simply glossing over the problem.</p>
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