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stagnation
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stag·na·tion (stg-nshn)
n.
1. The retardation or cessation of the flow of blood in the blood vessels, as in passive congestion.
2. The accumulation of a normally circulating fluid in a part or an organ.


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Such manifestations are either real practices of enjoyment that are distorted in their transformation into pathologies (addiction to drugs, food or alcohol), or manifestations of a narcissistic closure that produces stagnations of enjoyment in the body (anorexia, depression and panic).
Reading India: A Wounded Civilization and holding these three ideas in solution--the historical wound that has left India intellectually handicapped if not sterile, the limitations of the Gandhian project through which ancient stagnations and defeats reassert themselves and the birth of the organizing impulse within the neglected and destitute of India--one can see the book as the clearest description of the developments of that era.
Part IV deals with applied issues regarding the ethics of sex and opens up with Jan Steutel and Ben Spiecker's "Components of Virtues and Stagnations in Moral-Sexual Development.
 
 
 
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