This one I could not think of any connections with. There was the chunk of Eliadae, and we’ve already covered the broad scope of his ideas in class and reading the actually essays has not caused me any further insights into his theories, merely more expansion on his basic premises.
The bit the reader of ritual studies was interesting, applying a Freudian outlook on human growth and progression to the concept of “ritualization” which is like the ritual version of “socialization”. The author views even small acts such as a mother’s inspection of an unhappy baby’s crib as part of this “ritualization” as there are ritual elements such as naming and mutual recognition that are involved. And just as the Freudian conception as children going through stages such as “oral” and “anal” stages, this model as children going through different stages of ritualization such as the aforementioned “mutual recognition” or a “judiciary” phase where they are introduced to rituals which judge right and wrong. While the theories presented were very interesting, despite being based in Freud and psychoanalysis which I have an intellectual and emotional distaste for, I unfortunately can not think of an parallels between this and either any virtual-reality related topics or the Myth of the Eternal Return.
