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Création mimétique et circulation d’émotions lors de rituels (Mimetic Creation and Circulation of Emotions in Rituals)

2012; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Francês

10.2139/ssrn.3729120

1556-5068

Christoph Wulf,

Historical and Literary Analyses

French Abstract Les rituels comptent parmi les formes les plus efficaces pour créer, faire circuler et cultiver des émotions. On peut s’imaginer les rituels comme des pratiques dans lesquelles les performances du corps humain jouent un rôle central pour créer et dessiner des émotions. Des émotions d’appartenance et d’unisson d’une communauté sont engendrées par des rituels. Les rituels sont des constellations sociales, dans lesquelles se produisent des émotions ainsi que leur signification individuelle, culturelle et globale.English Abstract In this article, I will demonstrate how mimetic and performative processes play a central role in the creation and circulation of emotions in rituals. Following the clarification of some concepts, I will explain using the example of Michael Jackson’s funeral how rituals create emotions in mimetic and performative processes. In this example, I will illustrate that rituals are very important for the creation and circulation of emotions. The same also applies to religious rituals, ceremonies and celebrations, as well as transitional and everyday rituals, which give order and purpose to people’s lives. Many of the emotions created during daily rituals and the effects of rituals do not enter our consciousness; in fact, they become a part of our memory but are not available to be remembered. Nevertheless they are of central importance for the development of an individual and collective identity because they create competencies which we have, but whose origin in ritualistic learning processes we have forgotten about.