Post #2390769

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeI0jL22I10 Symposium ON VIOLENCE: #KlausTheweleit (in english) There are human bodies which live in constant fear without being exposed to concrete threats from the external world. Such fear derives from specific emotional states of these bodies themselves—fear that comes from the inside, fear that is rooted in peo-ple’s intestines, in their hearts, breasts or stomachs, their asses, their knees or their heads. It is the fear of losing the ground under one's feet. When verbalized, it is described in terms of being devoured or swallowed by sinking ground, of being im-mersed in floodwaters and carried away by mighty waves or of sinking into an abyss of excrement. The “fragmented body” has no secure feelings about where an individual’s own body ends and the outer world begins; it lives in a permanent state of hallucinatory perceptions. People with such a bodily structure can only achieve the sense of being “whole” or “complete” through acts of violence. There are special expressions of this and for it.