HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Overdetermination
8 Feb 2018
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Possession cults are a means for women to seek health. Represents the subjective life of the individual/inner self. Possession is a form of communication, speaks to the psychological, social, biological realities. Cults of affliction (women who feel their aspirations and intelligence are not being met or utilized) A connection to the motherline and others for support as the dramatization of conflicts are presented given the possessions. A therapy, an expressive and aesthetic form, ritual dramatization of conflicts. Becoming possessed = becoming a shaman, is empowering, it neutralizes the negatice situations that provoke the breakdown. Zar therapy works by convincing the woman to recognize her dissociated feelings as separate from herself in the first place. Western psychotherapy - patent to accept and integrate previously dissociated feelings as part of herself - take ownership and work through it. Possession tried to liberate women and demand they treat themselves. All points to a variety and resiliency of women"s healing work within the establishment.
