
Lecture III: Mimetic Rivalry and Girard's Theodicy | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Johnathan Bi
Metaphysical Desire Is the Channel of Abandonment
We project what is most important to us on an external object, and thereby become alienated from these qualities. Foyerbach's famous example is the Christian God. He berates Christianity because it makes us project the best qualities of man, innocence, love, truth, onto a distant God - robbing ourselves of those self-conceptions. Here, metaphysical desire is the channel and culprit of alienation as well. We often will set our eyes on something, and we want it so badly that we just won't even feel happy until we have that thing. This happens with clothing all the time.
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