primitive society, n.Definitions

Primitive society (n.) knows ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠neither repression nor the unconscious, because it does not know the category of the sexual.

Primitive society (n.) keeps ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠its chiefs in a straitjacket, exorcising the despot it fears it might secrete from within.

Primitive society (n.) does ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not lack power — it has many formations of it — but it keeps the circles from becoming concentric, so nothing resonates at a higher point.

Primitive society (n.) does ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not misunderstand the State; it wards it off by sensing what is coming — it need not understand a threat to fight it.

Primitive society (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠no superego, no guilt, no ego identified with global persons — and no anality, precisely because its anus is collectively invested.

Primitive society (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not ignorant of exchange, commerce and industry; it exorcises them, cordons them off, and keeps the merchant and the blacksmith subordinate.

Primitive society (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not a society of shortage but of free action that has no use for a work-factor — not lazy, not lawless, but ruled by a nomos with its own rigor and cruelty.

A Primitive society (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠called so not because it has no history — every society is in history — but because it tries, with a skill we underrate, to make its earlier states as permanent as possible.