More life - Centrality and marginality in human development

At both ends of the century, a border between the aberrant-marginal them an d the ideal-central us has been constructed around and through the homosexu al. I challenge the insufficiency of this characterization, so that we may learn more, not only about homosexuality, but also about the ways in which all human development is infused with an interplay between centrality and m arginality, I argue that traditional developmental models are dominated by the normative logic of centrality, with limited accounting for the developm ental necessity of marginality, whereas postmodern theories of subjectivity overvalue the potential of the margin and fail to account for the signific ance of similarity and coherence in human relations. I then use that critic ism as a platform for proposing five quasi-axioms toward a new developmenta l model. Central to this new model, which employs constructs derived from c haos and systems theories, is the interplay of centrality and marginality i n any given life.