Intimate domain : desire, trauma, and mimetic theory /
For René Girard, human life revolves around mimetic desire, which regularly manifests itself in acquisitive rivalry when we find ourselves wanting an object because another wants it also. Noting that mimetic desire is driven by our sense of inadequacy or insufficiency, Girard arrives at a profound i...
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East Lansing, MI :
Michigan State University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface : the family, feminist scholarship, and mimetic theory
- Introduction : family matters
- In search of lost time. Mothers ; The eyes of a parricide ; Of madeleines, mothers, and Mountjouvain ; The journey home is through the world
- Antigone. Siblings ; The house of Labdacus : on kinship and sacrifice ; Trauma and the Theban cycle ; Antigone and the ethics of intimacy
- The old man and the wolves. Fathers ; Not a country for old men : violence and mimesis in Santa Varvara ; To glimpse a world without wolves : from conflict to compassion.