[Music] segment 1 insights mimetic desire to quote one of your interpreters Gil Bailey quote desire as distinguished from animal appetite is always aroused by the desire of another explain if in order to invent desire because this hire is not natural desires not animal is it human we don't know it sometimes is human sometimes it seems very inhuman but how is it born I think desire usually is born out of the contemplation of someone else who is desiring and redesignate to you the object is desiring as desirable so every college student who wants to be an
investment banker obvious they want to fly around in a in their own jet and drive a Maserati but how does this apply to the ancient world what would the ancient world it has to apply in the same fashion the objects are different but the structural desire the triangular relationship of desire object model and subject serpent Eve Apple serpent in numeric theaters of desire is a symbol an image of the mediator in other words the one who directs the subject towards the bad design there are churches you know who know what they're talking about much better
than most people think know that example is the key to bad as well as good behavior and this is nothing but what I call pneumatic does have so that's why the church uses the phrase the occasion of sin it's now Gil Bailey once again the imitative nature of desire leads to conflict it leads to conflict and this is a both something very obvious and which is a paradox for most people when they first realize it if you imitate the desire of someone else you're the mire that someone else or that someone else may be your
best friend but as soon as you both desire the same object and the objects really desirable exist only in one copy in one's so I should say copy because it's not a copy it's here worried you know there is only one there's only one or one Ellen of original and therefore they have to fight therefore the real the theatrical situation the excellence is a situation of two people desiring the same object because they designate that object to each other once the imitated subject realizes is imitated this reinforces his desire he said I certainly selected the
right object as soon as this man saw her he fell in love with her like I did therefore we are white therefore I'm more convinced than ever that I should desire her therefore he's my enemy I'm chuckling because as as you as we will as the audience will learn as simple as it sounds it explains everything in a way let me quote you yourself Rene this time if this moves on to second your second basic insight the violence and the sacred if there is a normal order in societies it must be the fruit of an
anterior crisis explained it must be the result of an anterior crisis because people polarize around objects of desire and this can be regarded as true even for food for shelter for places where you can live and so forth so you can be sure that the human population in prehistorical time gathered around the same places because they were desirable because there was water there and so forth and they were united by that same desire and they were separated because very often there was not enough of whatever wasn't he did water shelter food and they started to
fight that's why I don't think we should say man is so bad you know that it will always fight with his fellow man even when he associates the people he associates most closely with other people if I toast often with they do because they are both moving for the same thing and these things are never in sufficient number or even if they are you tend to trust your model because you admire him do you say he's seen in the object something more than I saw and therefore I must follow him more than and this works
both ways as the one who desires first is imitated in his design is confirmed in that design but the conflictual situation is all over the place is coming from everywhere
