Le rite est dé-corps
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The body is simultaneously physical toil and erogenous, production or reproduction on the one hand, yearning for a lost origin on the other. Rituality is a cultural undertaking which attempts to transform this erogeneous element into a "signifier," to transpose this semiotic reality on a symbolic level. Thus the body is reduced to a "sense." Rituality becomes disembodiment, not only by its synchronic reduction of the body but, even moreso, by its "diachronism" progressively focalizing surfaces increasingly distant from the body.
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