Lecture III: Mimetic Rivalry and Girard's Theodicy | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Johnathan Bi
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The Social World of Gerard's Psychology
Gerard's psychology mounts a formidable challenge to the very ground of modern social theory. Gerard treats what we commonly think of as abnormalities within human psychology and society as necessary occurrences. We are all to some degree masochistic, bipolar, fetishizing, and alienated. In like manner, social pathologies, oppression, and inequity, which we only think plague the most unjust of societies or receive the same treatment. All of human society are oppressive and inequitable, the only difference being of kind and degree.
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