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Tomelleri, Stefano. Ressentiment: Reflections on Mimetic Desire and Society

open access: yesPhilosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2017
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What is mimetic desire?

Philosophical Psychology, 1994
Abstract This essay provides a conceptual analysis and reconstruction of the notion of mimetic desire, first proposed in Girard (1961). The basic idea behind the idea of mimetic desire is that imitation can play a key role in human motivational processes.
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Is Mimetic Desire a Root Cause of Religious Violence in Tanzania? An Analysis of Girardian – Mimetic Desire Theory

Tanzania Journal of Sociology, 2020
Mimetic desire theory is widely available in the Western debates and has informed thinking and arguments in the disciplines ofliterature, sociology, anthropology, religion, theology, and political science in the Western Universities. Unfortunately, thereare rare or limited debates on the application of the mimetic desire theory in Africa in general and
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Desire is Mimetic: A Clinical Approach

Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture, 1996
W is the clinical expression of mimetic desire? Rivalry. What I see every day in my practice is not mimicking, nor copying, nor learning; it is rivalry. Rivalry is recurrent, it repeats itself. The repetition syndrome identified by psychoanalysis is mimetic for two reasons: 1) because it is always the clinical expression of a rivalry and that rivalry ...
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Mimetic Desire in Musset's Lorenzaccio

Kentucky Romance Quarterly, 1985
Abstract “Pour comprendre l'exaltation fievreuse qui a enfante en moi le Lorenzo qui te parle, il faudrait que mon cerveau et mes entrailles fussent a nu sous un scalpel.” (III, 3)
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Envy, Desire, and Mimetism

2008
In this chapter, my discussion will be based, for the most part, on a thesis introduced in the 1960s and then further developed by Rene Girard, a renowned French philosopher whose work has been very influential, particularly in the United States where he teaches comparative literature.
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Middleton and Mimetic Desire

2012
AbstractThomas Middleton's reputation is at an interesting stage, no longer confined to conversations among academic specialists on early modern drama, but not yet in any settled place in a larger canon of authors whom literate people are meant to know about.
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Striptease: Desire, Mimetic Jeopardy, and Performing Spectators

TDR/The Drama Review, 1998
Jay Bildstein, an owner of Scores, the Manhattan sports and strip bar, presented a workshop at the exclusive St. Moritz Hotel in New York City entitled "How to Own, Manage, Run or Even Dance in a Topless Bar" (1992). His presentation was sponsored and advertised by the Learning Annex, a traditional adult education center.
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Leadership through the Lens of Mimetic Desire

International Journal of Leadership in Public Services, 2008
The author explores leadership ‘through the lens of mimetic desire’ suggesting that humans copy the behaviour of others and this is how we learn and progress. It is suggested that an effective leader is one who is able to channel this mimetic desire into shared goals, values and outcomes that can be perceived as having a wide benefit.
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Mimetic Desire as Illustrated in The Joneses

2018
Individuals' participation in the marketplace has exceeded all projections. As opposed to a leisure-based utopia that was predicted by many, even with most basic needs being satisfied, most individuals continue to strive to obtain more and more income to participate in the marketplace at progressively higher rates.
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