A PARADOXICAL PRINCIPLE · INTERMITTENT

The game structurally forbids the two players to hold symmetrical roles: each takes, in turn, the status of attacker, then of defender — at any instant one opens and the other answers, and the structure makes the roles reverse. Not a choice of tactics — a constraint of the form. A game within the game, flaring when the initiative changes hands, then receding.

IN THE SYSTEM

→ The unequal start — The game does not begin from equality.

→ The invitation to rupture — The offered breach — not a ruse, but a rule of the game.

IN THE CORPUS

→ Winning by Falling, Touching Without Touching

HOW TO CITE THIS CONCEPT

MALO, Olivier. Role dissociation. In: Black Combat Arts Institute — Concepts of the Internal Logic [online]. 2026. Available from: https://www.blackcombatarts.com/concepts-en/role-dissociation [accessed date].