Theater by Rene Girard

Author:Rene Girard [Rene Girard]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Brutus: Do you know them?

Lucius: No, sir, their hats are pluck’d about their ears And half their faces buried in their cloaks That by no means I may discover them By any mark of favor.

Brutus: Let ’em enter.

They are the faction.

(II, i, 72–77)

Whereas the mimesis of desire means disunity among those who cannot possess their common object together, this mimesis of conflict means more solidarity among those who can fight the same enemy together and who promise one another to do so. Nothing unites men like a common enemy, but at this stage only a few people are thus united, and they are united for the purpose of disturbing the peace of the community as a whole. That is why the conspiratorial stage is even more destructive of the social order than the mimetic configurations preceding it.

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