{"id":10,"date":"2023-08-14T09:58:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T07:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geokulture.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2023-08-14T18:06:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T16:06:17","slug":"rene-girard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geokulture.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Ren\u00e9 Girard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of French anthropologist and philosopher Ren\u00e9 Girard this December,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">what remains of his work and his theory of &#8220;mimetic desire&#8221; and its consequences for explaining and analyzing the phenomena of collective violence, &nbsp;its sacrificial rites and persecutions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s quite clear that mimetic desire is still relevant today, and there&#8217;s no shortage of recent examples in France and the rest of the world to support its theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the record, Ren\u00e9 Girard asserted that it&#8217;s not only our differences that lead us to oppose each other, but above all our similarities, our desire to be alike (<a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mensonge_romantique_et_V%C3%A9rit%C3%A9_romanesque\"><em>Mensonge romantique et V\u00e9rit\u00e9 romanesque<\/em><\/a> 1961).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mimetic character of desire is the dynamic of mimetic rivalry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indeed, we resemble each other through an object that we all desire, to which we put ourselves in rivalry, and all means are deployed to achieve this aim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This much desired object is to be able to live intensely its existence as Ren\u00e9 Girard says so well. Whether one is a citizen, a company or a state, a nation, the nature of this intense life is different according to the type of individual to which one belongs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But we do not know our desire, in this sense what it is made of and where it comes from, it is in fact guided by an object held by a model, we desire the desire of our model. Through the object, it is the model, which Girard calls mediator, that attracts us; it is the being of the model that is sought. In short, we desire the existence of another and this is the genesis of rivalry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mediation is external when the mediator of desire is socially out of reach of the subject, either from a mythology or socially out of reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mediation is internal when the mediator is real and at the same rank as the subject. It then turns into a rival and an obstacle for the appropriation of the object, whose value increases as the rivalry grows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Sokdara AO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of French anthropologist and philosopher Ren\u00e9 Girard this December, what remains of his work and his theory of &#8220;mimetic desire&#8221; and its consequences for explaining and analyzing the phenomena of collective violence, &nbsp;its sacrificial rites and persecutions? It&#8217;s quite clear that mimetic desire is still relevant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geokulture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geokulture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geokulture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geokulture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geokulture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/geokulture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/geokulture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geokulture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geokulture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geokulture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}