Theater Of Envy: William Shakespeare (Carthage reprint)

Like all romantic thinkers, Orsino sees desire as an object/subject relationship exclusively; he systematically short-circuits the third dimension, the mimetic model/obstacle/rival that makes everything intelligible. This is an especially tempting illusion in cases of pseudonarcissism, when all roles are played by the same individual.

Literary genius spontaneously understands the mimetic substratum of mythology and provides

Max Weber’s interpretation is rooted in Nietzsche’s reading of Judeo-Christianity as the resentment (ressentiment) of the weak against the strong, the slaves against their masters, the victims against their persecutors. The literal madness of Nietzsche’s attitude is that, close as he was to recognizing the truth of human culture, he willfully espou

and fulfillment would not turn to ashes.

always marvel at the naive compulsion that forces these people to divulge the very truth they are trying to hide, but we ourselves will make the same mistake at the first opportunity.

Thanks to the notion of strategy, men can postpone revenge indefinitely without ever giving it up. They are equally terrified by both radical solutions and go

This victim’s death reveals not only the violence and injustice of all sacrificial cults, but the nonviolence and justice of the divinity whose will is thus fully accomplished for the first and only time in history.

satisfaction of the few is obtained at the expense of the many. The real scapegoat now is the mass audience in a reversal that has become the rule in modern literature.

In that no-man’s-land it becomes impossible to define anything. All actions and motivations are their own opposites as well as themselves.