For example, therapists with their own histories of loyalty conflicts and alignments may
hold hidden assumptions that could interfere with their ability to discern the realities of any specific case (Feinberg & Greene, 1995).
The problem is often that our
hidden assumptions about the way the world works have not adjusted with changes in the world economy, and so are often misguided but nonetheless deeply
held.
For Ozick, however, the literary critic is herself the architect of literary tradition, arranging works, authors, movements, and trends in conversation with one another, «teas [ing] out
hidden imperatives and
assumptions held in common, and... creat [ing] the fertilizing conditions that underlie and stimulate a living literary consciousness.»