The Faulty logic of Object Acquisition - Deepstash

The Faulty logic of Object Acquisition

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 subject to object, but a triangular path to object through the role model. 

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The second part of the lecture on Girard. More in depth look at desires.

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