| When a group engages in storytelling, a spirit of communitas can pervade the entire group, regardless of the various backgrounds of each individual member. |
| The lovers flee from the structure of his society to the communitas of the woods. |
| It is this spirit of communitas that is the goal of the storyteller. |
| When communitas is present, everyone feels welcome, everyone feels like they belong. |
| Falk identified this communitas with the woods, with the unconscious, with the dream space. |
| The woods serve here as the communitas, a temporary aggregate for persons whose asocial desires require accommodation to preserve the health of society. |
