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267 - Luke Burgis - Revenge of the Scapegoat

The Symbolic World

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The Symbolism of the Twins in Gerard

In almost every culture in the world, you have a myth where there are twins that one of them ends up killing the other one or they end up committing violence against one another. The similarity seems to breed conflict. There's a, it leads more easily to a conflict of desire or the desire to differentiate one cell. So again, twins are in close proximity to one another. These are what Gerard calls internal mediators of desire, right? Internal meaning that they're inside of my world.

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