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Planned improvisation by participants, Wild Child
the action was collectively planned and talked through by them. I wrote to
the participants of this situation at the time of the data analysis to ask them
specifically about this incident. One of them wrote in detail about how she
remembered this scene four months later:
I have guite intense memories of the situation — it was perhaps the first
improvisation of my life. Ihe strongest feeling was the excitement. I got engulfed
in the excitement of the situation, of finding out something special and new in
the examination of Wanda. I also remember the uncertainty that I realised in
the middle of the scene that I dont know how I should behave in such a situation.
We had planned the scene with M. (for example that I will be recording my
comments on the side) — but what does a researcher comment? What is significant
and what isn’t? The importance of things change when you have a human living
like an animal. The classic stories like Mowgli and Tarzan are useless here, this is
an issue that creates a hole in human thinking — when the borders of the categories
we know shift we freeze, we feel uncomfortable, and don’t know what to do."
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