Envy, Desire, and Mimetism

Bénédicte Vidaillet

Chapter 3 in Workplace Envy, 2008, pp 46-58 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter, my discussion will be based, for the most part, on a thesis introduced in the 1960s and then further developed by René Girard, a renowned French philosopher whose work has been very influential, particularly in the United States where he teaches comparative literature. This thesis is known as the “theory of mimetism”, the “mimesis theory” or “theory of mimetic desire”.

Keywords: Greek Tragedy; Consult Agency; Object Couple; Mimetic Process; Subject Desire (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230227408_4

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