Monday 27 January 2014

Georges Bataille's "formlessness" as shamanic initiation



 Published on 27 Jan 2014

Bataille's Formlessness is a concept relating to human psychological structures and Hegelian dialectics. It is not emptiness, or meaninglessness, or "innate nature". Rather it is, in a sense, a reward for attaining a very high level of form and meaningfulness, much in the same way that shamanic initiation and the breakthrough to the self comes about through diligently following strictly prescribed rituals and protocols.

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