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[ ' 'At the close of the discussion that took place following Caillois ' s lecture on animal societies, I presented a few ideas that I want to return to today. "
(Bataille 's words, Janumy 22, 1 938) . As with most of wlwt he said, Cai!lois 's text was not preserved-probably was not even written down . On the other hand, Bataille 's notes on animal societies have been found among his papers . It is not impossible to think that they formed the framework of his presentation after Cail
lois had spoken . It is these notes that follow . ]
T o contemplate animal societies is t o contemplate societies a s a whole .
I . To situate the social phenomenon within the world as whole . Link: star (planet)
Part of a stellar system Molecular mass Galaxy
the compositional principle throughout the world .
2 . Society as the end of a process on the surface of a cooling star . 1 Molecule . micelle . cell . organism.
Society .
Line of deterioration .
Death entering into it more and more . Man conscious of death .
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Human society surrounding the planet with a sort of net . a child' s string bag for his ball . planet support.
3 . Animal society as a step along this route? Or more as a different branch . Where this branch will fit in .
Difference between colonies and societies . colony organism 4 . The animal colony .
Its characteristics. the material link for the pmts .
The colony is produced by budding . Rabaud and the absence of interattraction . The material link proves nothing .
sponge little difference
between organisms
sponge colony
notion of multiple degrees of interattraction
Inadequacy of my knowledge of biology . Regret that there is no biologist here . Sense of the College . This is equally valid for the following proposition.
5 . Passage from the state of colony-organi sm to the social state is produced only from a cettain metameric form that is seen at the so-called colonial state as in the organic state- only organisms that have become metameric end up as so
cieties .
Insects . birds . mammals .
6 . Animal societies form a very limited realm of science and can be defined as groups of metamerized organisms connected by a bond that is not material or, at the very least, not somatic .
Difficulties with this definition .
meaning of the word " group" (ensemble) . Greatly vmied solutions .
A personal solution that is not rigid, anticipating differences of de
gree that go from the vaguest association all the way to one that tends to destroy the autonomy of the pmts and to achieve a unity that is
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divisible: which is only very i mperfectly achieved in the most favor
able instances .
The degree stems from the extent of the immaterial bond - the grounds for dispute .
Soul
Communifying movement Interattraction and interaction?
7 . Different theories:
Impossible rationalism Organicism
B iologism
Division of labor Morphological difference .
That sociology belongs to compound ontology . 2 8 . Rabaud' s biologism.
Interattraction
Negation of interattraction Lone individuals .
What is interattraction?
Rabaud' s definition p. I 0 I _ 3 Thigmotropism of the catfish . the contagion of motion .
Relationship between interattraction and recognition of the socius .
Notion of contagion : society revolves around a group of individuals among whom contagion is possible-recognition being
implicated in this .
Only explanation: special case of compound ontology .
No necessity . Intenepulsion is possible there .
Lack of stability of society
thus defined: passage from one to the other.
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There must also be sufficient attraction to a common object for there to be stability . Nest.
and the ox . 4
9. Secondary impm1ance of interaction .
This is one result, which Rabaud denies .
A strange bias that, however, emphasizes certain quick answers . 1 0 . Psychoanalytic organicism
1 1 . Difference between animal society and human society . Different schools . Durkheim opposed to Rabaud. 5 Durkheim not a biologist and related to what I am saying .
1 2 . Possibility of maintaining identity yet difference in the mode of bonding . Development of Durkheim' s ideas
Formation of a nucleus
Nucleus of repulsion. nucleus of attraction.
Birth there of power and constraint .
Conclusion: We arrive thus at what is essential , at the very object of the ac
tivity pursued here , since this is an express case of sacred sociology . The object of sacred sociology is , in fact, the complex and mobi le nucleus formed by sacred things , of the right and of the left . It seems that , on the surface of this planet, when all is said and done , existence revolves around things that are , so to speak , charged with the dread they excite -with a dread that is indistinguishable from the dread of death . It is true that religion very frankly aims to transform unlucky things into lucky and primarily potent things , thereby escaping dread. But knowledge , even later knowledge , discovers the original process again . By es
tablishing the essential nature of the nucleus around which human existence re
volves, it clearly reveals human nature , which is, after all , strange and discon
certing for man himself. Very clearly, a major discovery is in question , not merely the discovery by man of what he i s - but above all the discovery of the fact that deep within, he is exactly , simultaneously , that which he detests the most and that which makes him burn with desire to the point of reaching an ex
plosive state that is greater than himself.