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The Ideas of Rene Girard: An Anthropology of Religion and Violence
Because desire is mimetic, people are naturally drawn to want what others want. ‘Two desires converging on the same object are bound to clash,’ writes Girard. This means that mimetic desire often leads people into unnecessary competition and rivalry with one another in an infernal game of status anxiety.
Aeon • How to Know What You Really Want | Psyche Guides
If becoming human involves, among other things, acquiring mimetic desire, it is obvious that humans could not exist in the beginning without sacrificial institutions that repress and moderate the kind of conflict that is inevitable with the working of mimetic desire.
René Girard • I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
The document discusses René Girard's theory of mimetic desire and its implications, analyzing how desires are formed socially and the role of identification in desire acquisition.
LinkThis is how the gospels worked. For the first time in history, the story was told from the standpoint of the victim. Girard sees this as a definitive turning point—the moment when the scapegoat mechanism began to lose its absolute power. The story forces people to come to grips with their own violence.