Abstract
Social groups potentially enter an acéphalic stage in which the group ‘annihilates’ the leader as a prelude to an unmediated experience of community. Borrowed from social theorist Georges Bataille, the French term ‘acéphale’ signifies the headless, both figuratively and literally, and is invoked to accentuate the disproportionate power relations between our elevated faculties of thought and our base aptitude for sensation and feeling. The identification and discussion of this proposed stage is embellished by case examples of two groups.
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health,Clinical Psychology,Social Psychology
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2 articles.
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1. Sexual Disgust Redux;The Psychoanalytic Review;2018-10
2. A HERO AND A LEADER;Traditiones;2017-01-12