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There is an aspect of our experience that feels the need and right to blame. There is an aspect of our experience that seeks revenge for not receiving what we believe we deserved.

Michael Brown • The Presence Process - A Journey Into Present Moment Awareness

René Girard's Mimetic Theory

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Insights with Rene Girard

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First describing the triangular structure of desire -- object, model, and subject -- Girard tells how conflicts are resolved and why human society is not marked by total conflict all the time.

René Girard • Insights with Rene Girard

Underneath every protector and every conflict between protectors, we find exiled emotional pain.

Toni Herbine-Blank • Internal Family Systems Couple Therapy Skills Manual: Healing Relationships with Intimacy From the Inside Out

For Girard, there are two branches of motivational forces of human natureMetaphysical desire (identity) Physical desire (aims at experience)

Jonathan Bi • Lecture I: Introduction to Mimetic Theory | René Girard's Mimetic Theory

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.

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THUS THE EXPRESSION “scapegoat” designates (1) the victim of the ritual described in Leviticus, (2) all the victims of similar rituals that exist in archaic societies and that are called rituals of expulsion, and finally (3) all the phenomena of nonritualized collective transference that we observe or believe we observe around us.

René Girard • I See Satan Fall Like Lightning

In all of the books Girard taught, desire always involved an imitator and a model.