We copy this desire for the object of the model and appropriate it as our own, most often without recognizing that the source of this desire comes from another apart from ourselves completing the triangle of mimetic desire. Girard found that human development proceeds triangularly from a model of desire who indicates some object of desire as desirable by desiring it themselves. Girard claimed that human desire functions imitatively, or mimetically, rather than arising as the spontaneous byproduct of human individuality, as much of theoretical psychology had assumed. Girard's main contribution to philosophy, and in turn to other disciplines, was in the psychology of desire. Although the reception of his work is different in each of these areas, there is a growing body of secondary literature on his work and his influence on disciplines such as literary criticism, critical theory, anthropology, theology, mythology, sociology, economics, cultural studies, and philosophy. Girard was the author of nearly thirty books, with his writings spanning many academic domains. René Noël Théophile Girard ( / ʒ ɪəˈr ɑːr d/ French: 25 December 1923 – 4 November 2015) was a French polymath, historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science whose work belongs to the tradition of philosophical anthropology. Raymund Schwager, James Alison, Robert Barron, Peter Thiel, Timothy Snyder, Jean-Michel Oughourlian, Jacques Ellul Scapegoat mechanism as the origin of sacrifice and foundation of human cultureĬommandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des LettresĬlaude Lévi-Strauss, Marcel Proust, Sigmund Freud, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ferdinand de Saussure, William Shakespeare, Friedrich Nietzsche, Miguel de Cervantes, Augustine of Hippo, Thomas Aquinas, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Edgar Morin, James George Frazer
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