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Lecture II: Mimetic Desire and Original Sin | René Girard's Mimetic Theory

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The Psychology of the Don Juan or the Cuckette

Gerard focuses on mimetic desire, and he delineates two species of desires within mimetic desire. Metaphysical desire is directed at what objects say about me; physical desire is directed to the experience confirmed by the qualities of the object. To the extent that I am doing an activity not for its own sake, but for what it says about me, our motivations for Gerard are perverse.

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