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Luke Burgis: The Power of Mimetic Desire [The Knowledge Project Ep. #138]
Mimetic Desire 101 - Anti-Mimetic—A Field Guide to Mimetic Desire
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We began with the idea that underpins all of Girard’s theories––imitation. Conflict between people, he believes, is rooted in our propensity for imitation or in what he calls “mimetic desire”—an idea that began to take shape for him through his study of the great European novelists.