The exiled critic’s principled rejection masks an inability to form lasting relationships.

Evidence

Alongside the tough rejection of compromise, which gives the tradition its virtue, is the felt social impotence, the inability to form extending relationships Yet we need to make a distinction between exile and vagrancy: there is usually a principle in exile, there is always only relaxation in vagrancy. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 624

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: This lack of reflection impairs therapeutic capacity and the ability to be self-aware enough to participate in authentic relationship. — The White British Counselling Psychologist