A SYMBOLIC BODY
When we speak of society, can we say that it has a body? This question warrants an in-depth interrogation: for us to claim a social symptom, or imply a social treatment, we must first establish that there is a body that is sick, a body to treat. We speak of legislators, religious organizations, and other mechanisms that consolidate and arbitrate powers as they manifest in a “body.” In this way, discourse points us somewhere we might be able to identify as a space where we might claim to find universal articulation.