The 2 twin components of mimetic desire

• Malleability. They are highly dependent on our mediators. If I grew up with a Don Juan father I may seek superficial relationship. 
• Power. The more we get motivated by it the more we loose our agency. The tulip buying mania, the 2001 dot...

Metaphysical desire is focused on our identity, our ego, our spirit ... the core of what we are. This itself can be broken down into 3 components:

1. Reality. We want our existence to be observed and noticed by others. What really matters is not the physical experience bu...

Mimetism was not Rene Girard original idea. It can be traced to David Hume who observed one's actions reverberates to the rest like the strings of a violin. It describes humans as a social specie, prone to co-vibrations aka under the influence of other people's actions.

• Mimetism is a s...

The basic mimetic behaviour manifests in society in more meaningful ways:

• Through prestige. The respect, admiration, and high regard that is accorded to someone has less to do with the objective qualities of the person and more with the adherence to normative values.

We crave objects because other people we look up are associated with those objects: a celebrity, a parent, a colleague etc... The faulty logic being that our acquisition of the object will grant us the same sense of being as our role-model. 

Desire is not a straight line from subjec...