Intellectual courage develops later than the convictions requiring it

Evidence

I felt that I was putting the lesson of this young suicide [of Bhubaneswari Bhaduri] over and above Foucault and Deleuze. This is how I perceived it then, and I was not then far enough launched in what I do now that 1 had the courage of my convictions. I was at the beginning of something. … I think the uncontrolled construction of the piece reflects something of that. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 2289