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mimetic desire

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Rene Girard

French literary critic and philosopher who developed mimetic theory — arguing that human desire is fundamentally imitative (we desire what others desire), that this creates rivalry and violence, that all cultures manage this violence through scapegoating, and that Christianity uniquely reveals and deconstructs the scapegoating mechanism.

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