Mimetic Desire 101 - Anti-Mimetic—A Field Guide to Mimetic Desire
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Mimetic Desire 101 - Anti-Mimetic—A Field Guide to Mimetic Desire
Think about which desires you really want to own and cultivate. It doesn’t matter whether they were originally mimetic or not – the intentionality that you bring to them can allow you to become the author of a new creation.
Aeon • How to Know What You Really Want | Psyche Guides
He gave the illusion of autonomy—because that’s how people think desire works. Models are most powerful when they are hidden. If you want to make someone passionate about something, they have to believe the desire is their own.
Luke Burgis • Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
It has some psychological ground, too: according to Rene Girard’s mimetic theory, we tend to want things simply because other people want them. Human desire is not an autonomous process but a collective one — this is how we decide what we care about.
Jordan Odinsky • The Value of a Velvet Rope: Effects of Hype and Exclusivity on Launch Strategies
Most of all: know where your desires came from. Your desires have a history. You can’t know what a ‘true’ or ‘authentic’ desire is unless you understand where it came from – and that involves diving deep into your past, understanding how you have evolved as a person, and seeing which desires have been with you for a long time and which ones have co... See more
Luke Burgis • How to Know What You Really Want | Psyche Guides
The truth is that we want most things according to how other people model the value of those things to us. These people are models of desire.
Luke Burgis • What People Are Really Doing When They Play Hard to Get
