Assignment Task
Q: But how can mimetic HYPERLINK “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taJ4MFCxiuo” behaviour also produce conflict?
Desire?
Desire is appetite plus symbolic representation.
But what determines which symbols we go after?
Mimesis: we imitate models / mediators. (They also copy.)
Internal v. external mediation à the former is more likely to produce conflict.
Internal mediation is one form of a double-bind.
Desire is subject to positive feedback loops.
Conflict, oddly, produces similarity: “doubling.” Metaphysical desire: attraction to the ‘being’ of an Other à the Other’s (imagined) autonomy, uniqueness, spontaneity, etc
The object is only a means of reaching the mediator. The desire is aimed at the mediator’s being.” (Girard, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, p. 53)
“Imitative desire is always a desire to be Another.’ (ibid. p. 83) ) Psychopathology
Girard’s work taken up by a number of thinkers in psychology: Jean-Michel Oughourlian, Henri Grivois, Marie Joyce, Andrew Meltzoff.
Pseudo-masochism and pseudo-sadism.
Pseudo-masochist concludes that his/her rejection by the Other or his/her defeat confirms the value of the Other and the object of desire à desire henceforth becomes tied to obstacles.
Pseudo-masochism and pseudo-sadism.
Pseudo-sadist surrounds him or herself with pseudo-masochists to establish and confirm his or her value. Has a projected (but false) self-sufficiency or narcissism. A potentially violent version of “playing hard to get.”
Final q: What is the human here?
Girardian psychology is usually called “interdividual psychology,” because the conception of the human at work here is that we are constituted by our relationships with others; in this sense we are not isolated monads (“individuals”).
One answer might be that Girard’s work on desire at least gives us the freedom to glimpse some of the ways in which we are determined
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