Lecture IV: The Scapegoat Mechanism | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Johnathan Bi
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The Second and Third Step of Sacrifice, Sacrification, and Divinization
Gerard: "What we are hearing here is none other than the second and third step of scapegoat, a murder, a sacrifice" From that sacrifice, the verses and chants were born, the meters were born from it, he says. Gerard's theories can't just be one peacegiving event, institutions must flow from it, and institutions do flow from it. The logic of Oedipus may seem extreme enough to us, but no, here, all the lost, all the animals, the entire living world,. nay, life itself is attributed to the sacrifice.
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