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CHAPTER Two: WHAT Is A DRAMA EVENT in Bondian theory “embodies our ability to produce Values” and “radical innocence puts forward our existential need to do so”.*” Understanding our surrounding and evaluating it is needed to be able to survive. The process of enculturation of a child is that of growing into the socio-cultural context and using structures and elements of the surrounding culture to make meaning and give value. Damasio writes about social and cultural homeostasis to describe the enculturation process that the individual goes through.** The scientific term suggests that to be able to exist in a society the individual needs to take in and make elements of the surrounding culture its own. Bond argues that as both the child and society use imagination to give meaning and value in the process of enculturation the child’s imagination assimilates elements of the culture it lives in. Imagination is used in the continuous recreation of this subjective reality — the child’s understanding of the world in its mind — which is also the formation of the self, because the experiencedunderstanding of its surrounding contains the child’s relationship to the objective reality as well." The relationship to our surrounding is the defining part of our self as it determines our thinking about it and ourselves, and also our actions in it. Bond sees the self as a “palimpsest of maps”*”° that is built on the need to be at home in the world, the radical innocence, but contains the layers of understanding of world where culturally determined values mix with those based on personal values. In another source Bond uses the metaphor of layers of sand, to stress the fluidity of interaction between layers. And under these layers is the need to be at home in the world.**! However, there is a big difference between this core segment of the self and the further layers that incorporate the cultural elements surrounding the individual, because while radical innocence is the human need for justice, the later layers of the palimpsest self incorporate the injustices present in society. The basic tenet of Bond’s theory is that the contradiction between striving for justice and living in unjust societies presents itself within the self. It is the conflict between what he calls the radical innocence and encultured layers of the palimpsest self.*”? Bond sees this as an unresolvable conflict which does not have a right solution, but creates a problem, a hiatus in understanding to which each person needs to respond individually. Bond conceptualises this conflict within the self as the “human paradox”.*? “The paradox is the sudden, dramatic assertion 317 Amoiropulos: Balancing Gaps, 75. Damasion: Self comes to mind, 30. Bond: The Cap, xxxiii. 320 Bond: Reason for Theatre, 117. 321 Edward Bond: Interview at ‘Stop Acting’ event by Addm Bethlenfalvy at Marczibäny Teri Művelődési Központ, Budapest, 11 December, 2009. 322 Bond: Freedom and Drama, 212. 323 Tbid. 318 319 Do + 86 +
