Fbr Goffman, the self was primarily motivated by a desire to be well regarded—both by others and by oneself—and every interaction offered occasions for eliciting that regard. (Location 67)
One objective in dealing with these data is to describe the natural units of interaction built up from them, beginning with the littlest—for example, the fleeting facial move an individual can make in the game of expressing his alignment to what is happening—and ending with affairs such as week-long conferences, these being the interactional mastodons that push to the limit what can be called a social occasion. (Location 112)
His coparticipants are not likely to be conscious of the character of many of these attributes until he acts perceptibly in such a way as to discredit his possession of them; then everyone becomes conscious of these attributes and assumes that he willfully gave a false impression of possessing them. (Location 164)
Ordinarily, maintenance of face is a condition of inter-action, not its objective. Usual objectives, such as gaining face for oneself, giving free expression to one’s true beliefs, introducing depreciating information about the others, or solving problems and performing tasks, are typically pursued in such a way as to be consistent with the maintenance of face. (Location 221)
The purpose of the game is to preserve everyone’s line from an inexcusable contradiction, while scoring as many points as possible against one’s adversaries and making as many gains as possible for oneself. (Location 372)
If the individual could give himself the deference he desired there might be a tendency for society to disintegrate into islands inhabited by solitary cultish men, each in continuous worship at his own shrine. (Location 887)
or capacity-esteem, as when the individual defers to another’s technical advice. (Location 905)
and yet we know these antique tributes cannot be neglected with impunity. (Location 921)
(Perhaps the prototype here is the public act of allegiance by which a subject officially acknowledges his subservience in certain matters to his lord.) Deferential pledges are frequently conveyed through spoken terms of address involving status-identifiers, (Location 925)
Note: i laughed initially but what the prototype is, is a good question - why don’t we reassert attitudes of superiority in an alpha/natural way? (tho obv that is only some “natural” templates).
Whatever is in the patient’s mind, the throwing of feces at an attendant is a use of our ceremonial idiom that is as exquisite in its way as is a bow from the waist done with grace and a flourish. (Location 1309)
The inhabitable reality shrinks until everyone feels “small” or out of place. (Location 1619)
The objective of psychiatry all along has been to interpose a technical perspective: (Location 2052)
Freudian psychiatry introduced an important twist in this medical line. In little classics of analysis, Freudians have shown that particular delicts, now called symptoms, can be interpreted or read as part of the offender’s system of communication and defense, in particular a reversion to infantile modes of conduct. (Location 2054)
(as illustrated by the obsessive concerns and sexual withdrawal of some research chemists). (Location 2058)
Note: lol wut
Even worse, they have tended to labor under the telephone-booth bias that what the patient was engaged in was somehow a type of talking, of information imparting, the problem being that the line was busy, the connection defective, the party at the other end shy, cagey, afraid to talk or insistent that a code be used. (Location 2075)
Few professions, may I add, have so well been able to institutionalize, to sell on the social market, their own fantasies of what they were engaged in doing. (Location 2079)
Psychosis is something that can manifest itself to anyone in the patient’s work place, in his neighborhood, in his household, and must be seen, initially at least, as an infraction of the social order that obtains in these places. (Location 2086)
Psychotic behavior is, in many instances, what might be called a situational impropriety. (Location 2109)
Wheresoever action is found, chance-taking is sure to be. (Location 2223)
In the degree to which a play is a means of acquiring a prize, it is an opportunity; in the degree to which it is a threat to one’s bet, it is a risk. The perspective here is objective. A subjective sense of opportunity or risk is quite another matter since it may, but need not, coincide with the facts. (Location 2248)
