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Sacrificed lives: Mimetic desire, sexual difference and murder

Cultural Values, 2000
This essay explores the theme of sexual difference in relation to sacrifice by contrasting Girard's account of mimetic desire and cultural violence with Kristeva's extensive reflections on allied themes. Inspired by Reineke's critique of Girard the object of the paper is to generate discussion concerning the ethical implications of recognizing the play
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Mimetic Desire, Violence and Sacrifice in the "Celestina"

Hispania, 2003
This essay is an application of Ren? Girard's critical models to the Celestina, specifically, the concept of "mimetic" or "triangular" desire and the model of violence and sacrifice. According to Girard, violence results from loss of difference, and sacrifice must take place to restore the lost order. In Rojas's text, Celestina, the mediator of desire,
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Mimetic Limits Desire, Death and the Sacred

2018
This chapter looks at how French writers of the mid-twentieth century take mimesis away from the centre of the novel. Georges Bataille puts ‘evil’ at the centre, that is the breaking of social habits to reach some deep level of desire which is enacted rather than represented.
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The Modalities of Desire in Mimetic Rivalry

2017
This chapter analyses the modes of perpetrator performative transgression by distinguishing between torture, torment, and agony as outcomes desired by perpetrators that represent different kinds of suffering reflective of the comparative influences of culture.
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Bodies Exposed. Dramas, Practices and Mimetic Desire

2016
This issue of “Comunicazioni Sociali” is devoted to the exposition of the body in the society of images, spectacle and social media, and is divided into two sections, critical and experiential. Four critical papers deal with the dehumanising consequences of (a) the gaze, which can be irresponsible both seeing and being seen, as stigmatised already by ...
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Ressentiment

2015
This book is a response to Friedrich Nietzsche’s provocative question: How much and how does ressentiment condition our daily life? During the twentieth century we witnessed veritable eruptions of this insidious emotion, and we are still witnesses of its proliferation at various levels of society.
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Lolita and Mimetic Desire

Contagion: Journal of Violence Mimesis and Culture, 2016
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