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Lecture I: Introduction to Mimetic Theory | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Johnathan Bi
The Scapegoat Mechanism Is a Unanimous Process
Gerard Drart: In all pagan religions, we can find traces of a once victim turned god at the foundation of the culture. The example gerard will point to is the story of oedipus, as told by sophocles. As edipus expulsion brought about lasting peace through catharsis, he started to gaina dual character. Still evil for causing the plague, but also radically good with the power to end plagues and bring peace. Edipus, at the end of the story has been divinized, or at least fetishized.
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