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Lecture VII: The One Who Withholds | René Girard's Mimetic Theory

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The Importance of a Temporal Gap Between Gift and Counter-Gift

In early societies, gift-giving rituals always had a temporal gap between gift and counter-gift. A zeroing of the balance sheet implied a breaking of that relationship. The second that you start accounting for debts, the relationship just devolves into a transaction.

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