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Lecture IV: The Scapegoat Mechanism | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Johnathan Bi
Oedipus Kills Lyus
"This is what it means to be an estate of mimetic contagion. Clearly, we haven't gotten to the solution yet," he says. "The group will choose one victim or a small set of victims that is marked in some special way to inherit all of the blame and frustrations of the group." This scapegoat will be expelled and reconciled the group in a cathartic act of symbolic release,. Let's go back to Oedipus and see how this plays out.
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