The Remnants of Desire: Sacrificial Violence and Sexual Transgression in the Cult of the Kāpālikas and in the Writings of Georges Bataille (original) (raw)

The Remnants of Desire: Sacrificial Violence and Sexual Transgression in the Cult of the Kāpālikas and in the Writings of Georges Bataille

Religion, 1995

Abstract

... The severed head and the severed penis are both dangerous, destructive and yet also supremely powerful ... try to imitate Suiva literally, rather than just symbolically, in all of his most violent and ... the crime of beheading Brahma¯ precisely for the sake of founding the cult of the Ka ...

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