Intimate Domain: Desire, Trauma, and Mimetic Theory

by Martha J. Reineke

For Ren Girard, human life revolves around mimetic desire, which regularly manifests itself in acquisitive rivalry when we find ourselves wanting an object because another wants it also. Noting that mimetic desire is driven by our sense of inadequacy or insufficiency, Girard arrives at a profound insight: our desire is not fundamentally directed toward the other's object but toward the other's being. We perceive the other to possess a fullness of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611861284
• ISBN13: 9781611861280
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"