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The literary critic René Girard had a name for this phenomenon of admiring something that someone else admires, calling it mimetic or imitative desire: the object of desire is intriguing to others due ...

The key that unlocks the “hidden in plain-sight” meanings was elaborated by the late Rene Girard, who coined the term “Mimetic Theory.” Girard decoded several of Shakespeare’s works in a ...

But why? Borrowed Desires and René Girard's Insight René Girard, the French philosopher, offered a compelling and fascinating explanation. We don’t just imitate others—we imitate their desires.