René Girard’s Mimetic Theory Changed The Way I Looked At My Own Desires.
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René Girard’s Mimetic Theory Changed The Way I Looked At My Own Desires.
His ideas do not magically make us stop being mimetic. The mimetic theory gives us a framework to avoid situations that inspire debilitating desires; what type of person to avoid and who to keep close
Jonathan Bi • Lecture I: Introduction to Mimetic Theory | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
The mimetic theory is first and foremost a theory of religion. It describes the “religious” dimension of interpersonal relations—the idolatry of models or sexual partners—just as it explains the origins of archaic religions and the qualitative difference between these and the Judeo-Christian tradition.
Wolfgang Palaver • René Girard's Mimetic Theory (Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture)
Girard discovered that we come to desire many things not through biological drives or pure reason, nor as a decree of our illusory and sovereign self, but through imitation.