(Bolded parts are the free audio) Continuing exegesis of Rene Girard’s Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, on chastising mankind, neither law nor grace, master & disciple, mimetic rivalry, Dave O, a 12-year discipleship, when the scapegoat becomes the example, the stone the builders rejected, questioning the leader, how CoJ got its name, entity-talk, tricked into a guilty plea, siding with one’s conscience, Job’s position, an image destroyed, scapegoating & the creation of rules, metaphysical desire, the object of autonomy, killing Buddha, competing with the master, a chain of mentors, the world’s indifference, an empty circle of desire, doubles of desire, differentiation & imitation, homosexuality as advanced mimesis, Freud’s pansexuality, LGBTQ & identity politics, Havelock Ellis & perversity as supreme individuality, Freud’s centering of sexuality in the psyche as a primary fallacy, the eternal feminine as false object, the femme fatale & the myth of intact narcissism,…
