Martha J. Reineke's Intimate Domain: Desire, Trauma, and Mimetic Theory (Studies PDF

By Martha J. Reineke

For René Girard, human lifestyles revolves round mimetic hope, which often manifests itself in acquisitive contention after we locate ourselves short of an item simply because one other wishes it additionally. Noting that mimetic wish is pushed via our experience of inadequacy or insufficiency, Girard arrives at a profound perception: our hope isn't really essentially directed towards the other’s item yet towards the other’s being. We understand the opposite to own a fullness of being we lack. Mimetic hope devolves into violence whilst our quest after the being of the opposite is still unfulfilled. So pervasive is mimetic hope that Girard describes it as an ontological disorder. In Intimate Domain, Reineke argues that it is crucial to enhance Girard’s mimetic thought if we're to offer a whole account of the affliction he describes. getting to familial dynamics Girard has missed and reclaiming features of his early theorizing on sensory adventure, Reineke makes use of psychoanalytic thought to put Girard’s mimetic idea on less assailable flooring. Drawing on 3 exemplary narratives—Proust’s In seek of misplaced Time, Sophocles’s Antigone, and Julia Kristeva’s The outdated guy and the Wolves—the writer explores familial relationships. jointly, those narratives exhibit corporeal hermeneutics based in psychoanalytic thought can usefully increase Girard’s insights, thereby making sure that mimetic conception is still a definitive source for all who search to appreciate humanity’s ontological disorder and determine a possible cure.

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