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Overview: A Sketch Of Themes In Analysis Of Creaturely Motives, Kirby Farrell Dec 2014

Overview: A Sketch Of Themes In Analysis Of Creaturely Motives, Kirby Farrell

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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).