”One of the things I felt I suffered from as a kid,34; Arbus wrote, 34;was that I never felt adversity. I was confined in a sense of unreality....And the sense of being immune was, ludicrous as it seems, a painful one.34;...By experience was meant, if not material adversity, at least psychological adversity- the shock of immersion in experiences that cannot be beautified, the encounter with what is taboo, perverse, evil.