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Lecture I: Introduction to Mimetic Theory | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
- 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.
from The Ideas of Rene Girard: An Anthropology of Religion and Violence by David Cayley
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