The Girard mimetic desire triangle idea seems backwards to me. The borrowed desires part is right but the idea that it is some disguised desire to be the person whose desire is being borrowed seems kinda dumb in an overwrought way. Am I missing something?
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focus more on the early childhood context - like a Freudian. then it's clearer
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That also seems kinda dumb. This whole thing feels like recycled clumsy Freudian-inspired social psych tbh.
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Recycled... or seminal? V profound model for the human experience imo
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We must disagree here. It seems like a very banal model of Straussian lusting after Great Man thirst traps.
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