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Ale Boussalem

Jun 24, 2026

16:22
So you mentioned that there's a sort of psychological aspect, a political aspect, and also that these aspects are varied across different spaces or national contexts.
16:31
Yeah.
16:32
So I think at the beginning of the chapter, I sort of outline really in a very summarized way, some of the threads that contribute to the different meanings that we associate with the closet.
16:48
And one of them is definitely the kind of that results from certain insights in developmental psychology.
16:55
I mean, there is generally a problem already or something to be interrogated and in understandings of sexuality is something that develops and people go through different stages and each stage denotes a better self-acceptance or a higher level of self-acceptance of self.
17:14
And then usually in these models coming out, not in all of these models, but in many of these models coming out is seen as a step that is absolutely essential and important and key in self-acceptance and being recognised in resolving shame.
17:28
And I think This is, of course, an important tool and this has given important ways of understanding self as well for many people.

5 MINS LATER

22:53
And I wondered if you could maybe bring out or emphasise that kind of element of spatial difference.

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