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Mimetic Desire and Fantasies of Deliverance: Crucifying Girard's Claims About Religious Violence and Revelation

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 22, Issue 3, September 2025.
ABSTRACT A previous paper described and challenged Girard's extensive revisions and rejections of psychoanalytic ideas, further elucidating some of his egregious misunderstandings and erroneous claims. This paper continues by dissecting his problematic claims about religion, especially his dubious insistence that Christian revelation is the only ...
Jerry S. Piven
wiley   +1 more source

Freedom In Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov: An Existentialism Approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This research paper deals with Freedom as a basic premises of existence. The object of this study is Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov. This study deals with human’s free will as reflected in Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov.
Mayasari, Mayasari
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From Lack of Concerns to Complicity: How Misinformation Concerns Influences Fake News Sharing on WhatsApp via the Partisan Legitimation of Fake News

open access: yesSocial Science Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 4, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Objectives Misinformation has emerged as an important threat to democracies, fostering severe concerns among citizens worldwide. However, even in this context, research emphasizes that citizens play a crucial role in the dissemination of falsehoods on social media.
Manuel Goyanes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

René Girard's Revision and Misapprehension of Psychoanalysis

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 22, Issue 2, June 2025.
ABSTRACT René Girard's theories of mimetic desire, religious sacrifice, and violence have been immensely provocative and influential. His ways of framing literary desire and conflict are fascinating, as they illustrate how desire and rivalry unleashed lead to violence and derangement.
Jerry S. Piven
wiley   +1 more source

THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV: THE THEME OF RECONCILIATION

open access: yesSelçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2016
THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV: THE THEME OF ...
Nezih ONUR
doaj  

Pursuing Pankalia: The Aesthetic Theodicy of St. Augustine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This chapter summarizes Augustine’s often-neglected aesthetic theodicy that balances his metaphysical definitions of evil and human agency against the ultimately beautiful story Augustine sees God, as the author of all Creation, writing. First, Augustine’
Holdier, A. G.
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Final Words, Final Shots: Kurosawa, Bortko and the Conclusion of Dostoevsky???s Idiot [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In their article "Final Words, Final Shots: Kurosawa, Bortko, and the Conclusion of Dostoevsky???s Idiot" Robert O. Efird and Saera Yoon discuss film adaptations of Dostoevsky???s novel.
Efird, Robert O., Yoon, Saera
core   +2 more sources

THE SERAPHIC ELDER IN "THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV": PROBLEMATIC ASPECTS [PDF]

open access: yesПроблемы исторической поэтики, 2008
The article examines the image of the elder Zosima in Dostoevsky's novel "The Brothers Karamazov". Character fits into the european and the orthodox paradigm of christian culture.
Suzy V. N.
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People of mercy: theological laicity in The Brothers Karamazov

open access: yesChurch, Communication and Culture, 2017
The depth of the understanding of reality that emerges from the work of Fyodor Dostoevsky is simply ineffable. The divine and human is continuously recalled in his narrative plots and in the development of his characters.
Giulio Maspero
doaj   +1 more source

CONFESSION AND REPENTANCE IN F. M. DOSTOYEVSKY'S NOVEL THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV [PDF]

open access: yesПроблемы исторической поэтики, 2014
The article deals with the meaning of a penitential confession in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov. It is noted that the penitential confession in the novel exempts from the burden of guilt, allowing the confessor to get rid of ...
Denis Vladimirovich Vasil'ev
doaj   +1 more source

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