Well, I guess essentially social beings are dependent by definition. Sometimes (oft-times) this ain't recognised (eg methodological individualism), so it's a sorta baby thing (if still hierarchical), and sometimes it is (lurv, team sports, terrace yobs, picket lines), so it ain't, and they're all beaut sensations, consciously sought and amplified. Well, for co-dependent types like me, anyway ...
>And then, what does Mansfield Park have to do with this?
Ain't Fanny's dependence on her fickle saviours kinda central to MP's plot? Unlike the other relationships alluded to in the book, the relationship that ultimately causes Fanny's coming and going is a hierarchical relationship. Class, no? Where's the fun bit?
Oh, and thanks for the Pistols' correction, Dennis. Reckon something of what I was trying to say survives the correction, though, doncha reckon?
'Night all, Rob.