Unpublished Paper
Overview: a sketch of themes in analysis of creaturely motives
(2015)
Abstract
This is a response to a Research Gate session on “Horror Sanguinis,” an essay posted by D.L. Smith and Ioanna Panaitiu, on rites of purification through which cultures prepare warriors and others tainted by violence to reenter society. My comment sketches some basic themes in my work on creaturely motives in cultural analysis (Post-Traumatic Culture and The Psychology of Abandon).
Keywords
- violence,
- war,
- warrior,
- culture,
- ritual,
- purification,
- fertility,
- berserk,
- rage,
- arousal,
- psychic emergency,
- loot,
- slave,
- sexual aggression,
- survival
Disciplines
Publication Date
2015
Citation Information
Kirby Farrell. "Overview: a sketch of themes in analysis of creaturely motives" (2015) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kirby_farrell1/18/