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Abstract
Anthropologists have stressed the relationship between symptoms of distress, ritual action and unwanted possession. The article stresses the importance of language and performance in two therapeutic cults in India. The crucial issue here involves showing how ritual becomes a means for either representing or manipulating special mental states. We see how individuals may use possession as a strategy to frame a reformulation of the self. Healing thus involves self-awareness.
Résumé
Les anthropologues ont souligné les relations qui existent entre les symptômes de souffrance, l’action rituelle et la possession involontaire. Cet article montre l’importance du langage et de la ritualisation dans deux cultes thérapeutiques de l’Inde. Le point crucial ici consiste à montrer comment le rite permet de représenter et de manipuler des états mentaux. Nous voyons comment des individus utilisent la possession pour reformuler leur rapport à eux-mêmes. La thérapie implique donc une prise de conscience de soi.
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