The Importance of Mimetic Desire

The idea of mimetic desire and how everything is inter-subjunctive as you say and depends on relations with people came to me little by little. i spent probably five years reading everything i could get my hands on from rene jr.ard's work where you know a single person you know comes to see a therapist or psychologist and the psychologist cannot really fully understand anything that they're talking about. so i saw an intellectual level the way that mimetic desire had played out in my life in good ways and in not so good ways but it also sort of sidetracked me trying to achieve things that i ultimately didn't care about to impress people that didn't love me. So

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