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Lecture I: Introduction to Mimetic Theory | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Girard taught that all desire is fundamentally a desire for being. In other words, all desire is metaphysical—it seeks a kind of inner transformation, a transfiguration of identity, which we desperately seek but even more desperately deny.
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Girard x McLuhan: The Medium is the Mimesis
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This is what Girard calls metaphysical desire: desire of another’s desire—not of any particular object.
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Mimetic desire is the unwritten, unacknowledged system behind visible goals.6 The more we bring that system to light, the less likely it is that we’ll pick and pursue the wrong goals.