User:Aitantv/Ernesto Pujol (2013) Vulnearbility as Critical Self-Knowledge

Ernesto Pujol (2013) Vulnerability as Critical Self-Knowledge. Interview with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve. Brooklyn: Published in The Brooklyn Rail.

• "It is an overall philosophy of never wearing an armour, of walking into each and every project psychically naked, so as to understand a people and a place through all my sense". (Pujol, 2013)
• "We are each others' teachers. i tell them my concerns, worries, fears, nightmares. I tell them my hopes, dreams, aspirations. I listen to theirs. But it is not a flood that lacks appropriate behaviours. It is quiet and formal, a strong creative intimacy." (Pujol, 2013)
• "we live in a society of false multiple selves, so self-knowledge is harder to achieve than ever " (Pujol, 2013)

+ Pujol joined the Trappists, a Cisterian French order. This is where he learned the importance of non-judgemental listening.

• "Emptiness is the ground for listening." (Pujol, 2013)
• "The only space where there is no weakness is science fiction, among cartoon characters. I am real" (Pujol, 2013)

+ Pujol exclaims that to be vulnerable is to be real and specifically separates fragility (someone who is weak, and possibly traumatised, or broken) from vulnerability (which is a readiness, an openness to our humanity).