I really enjoyed the name of this chapter. I had to look up the word "hermeneutics" and I still am not sure I understand its usage with "hermeneutics of suspicion". Some interesting walking away points for me were reparative=love and paranoia=repression of same sex desire. I have paranoid tendencies, I am overly aware of everything that can go wrong. I like to prepare for these possible wrong things so that I am not surprised. But I also get so overwhelmed by the possibilities of problems that I give up and try to wing it. So what is more is more problematic the belief that I can ever be prepared enough or the belief that I can never fully be prepared?
Paranoia is a practice that is mutable with transformation..."it is sometimes the most paranoid-tending people who are able to, and need to, develop and disseminate the richest reparative practices" pg 150 Sedgwick. By putting this constant energy into imagining the worst it is necessary to also spend considerable time and energy into imagining ways to bring reparation/love into the world. I like to think that the same powers of mind and empathy can create talent for both practices.
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