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The Call of the Trance (Hardcover)
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The Call of the Trance (Hardcover)
Series: The French List
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Loot Price R499
Discovery Miles 4 990
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The Call of the Trance is a magnificent book that takes us to the
unchartered frontiers of the forbidden. From initiation ceremonies
to crises of hysteria, from suicide attempts to the ecstasies of
witches, Catherine Clement explores in simple but scholarly terms
the responses that civilizations have offered to the humanistic
need for escape from the body. These "eclipses" from life and
reality, pursued by people across cultures, are elusive and
invariably inexpressible. Clement details this phenomenon through
the past and the present, from the witches of Loudun to current
Mongolian shamans and from the eighteenth-century convulsionaries
of Saint-Medard to Greeks of today, who follow in the footsteps of
their earlier practices. Along the way, she questions the countless
ways humans push back the limits of the mind and body, and she
shows how, from Dionysian antiquity to our own day, the ecstasy of
the trance state shows up in anorexia, rock music, rap, sexual
reassignment, eroticism, and even Twilight-style vampire stories.
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