
Lecture III: Mimetic Rivalry and Girard's Theodicy | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Johnathan Bi
Inmimetic Rivalry
Inmimetic rivalries think about intense competitions, or maybe even fuse that you've been in. You tend to blame your rivals disproportionately for your problems and often attribute to them a malicious intent that they didn't really have. Real desire then becomes inflamed in rivalry because of this difference between the loser and the victor. But apart from merely exacerbating the problems of metaphysical desire, this type of competition introduces a new problematic logic.
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