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The family scapegoat syndrome is a version of the scapegoat mechanism that operates within a family system of desire.
The contribution of this book to the field of reconciliation is both theoretical and practical, recognizing that good theory guides…
“Individualism is a formidable lie.” “More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning – and that its meaning…
Mimetic desire is the hyperobject hidden since the foundation of the world.
A mimetic system is a structure sustained by mimetic desire and the mimetic process.
A social fact is an idea originating with the sociologist Émile Durkheim—it’s something that has a genesis in the institutions…
In the article Scapegoating in American Beauty Eric Buys reflects on the role mimetic desire plays in the life of…
Eric Buys has written an excellent piece imagining mimetic theory being taught as a high school course. Human beings are…
This volume explores mimetic theory and its shared ground between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—the Abrahamic religions—which seems to have a…
“A common theme in films, novels, or plays is how desire works in characters and how it creates and changes…
The drama of everyday life is that people are constantly seeking other people to imitate while simultaneously unaware that they…
Artificial intelligence and two of its sub-domains, machine learning and deep learning, often develop with the aid of mimetic algorithms.…
Psychologist Abraham Maslow first published his famous “Hierarchy of Needs” in 1943. He illustrated the way that he believed human…
The following are excerpts from the essay Bernadette Waterman Ward called ABORTION AS A SACRAMENT: MIMETIC DESIRE AND SACRIFICE IN…
In 1995, televisions were introduced to a corner of the Fiji islands that had never had television before. Fijian culture…