Violence and the Sacred (Bloomsbury Revelations) by Girard René

Author:Girard, René [Girard, René]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472530028
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-10-24T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 For a discussion of these works see my Deceit, Desire, and the Novel (Baltimore, 1965).

2 See Gregory Bateson et al., “Toward a Theory of Schizophrenia,” in Steps to an Ecology of the Mind (New York, 1972), pp. 201–27.

3 Jean Laplanche, Hölderlin et la question du père (Paris, 1961).

4 The hysterical experience of the four lovers in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a powerful description of this process that generates the monsters of the night, notably the “marriage” of Titania, queen of the fairies, with an ass-headed Bottom. See René Girard, “More than Fancy’s Images: A reading of A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” in Textual Strategies: Perspectives in Post-Structuralist Criticism, ed. Josue Harari (Ithaca, N.Y., 1979).

5 Godfrey Lienhardt, Divinity and Experience, pp. 136–37, 274, et passim.

6 Cf. Jeanmaire’s description of the Zar and Bori (Dionysos, pp. 119–31.)

7 Victor Turner, The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual (Ithaca, N.Y., 1970), p. 105.

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