| BOOK I: FUNDAMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY |
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The Victimage Mechanism as the Basis of Religion |
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3 | (45) |
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Acquisitive Mimesis and Mimetic Rivalry |
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7 | (3) |
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The Function of the Law: Prohibiting Imitation |
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10 | (9) |
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The Function of Ritual: Imperative Mimesis |
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19 | (4) |
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Sacrifice and the Victimage Mechanism |
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23 | (7) |
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30 | (18) |
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The Development of Culture and Institutions |
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48 | (36) |
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48 | (3) |
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Sacred Kingship and Central Power |
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51 | (7) |
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The Polyvalence of Ritual and the Specificity of Institutions |
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58 | (10) |
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The Domestication of Animals and Ritual Hunting |
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68 | (5) |
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Sexual Prohibitions and the Principle of Exchange |
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73 | (7) |
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80 | (4) |
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The Process of Hominization |
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84 | (21) |
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84 | (5) |
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89 | (4) |
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The Victimage Mechanism and Hominization |
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93 | (6) |
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The Transcendental Signifier |
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99 | (6) |
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Myth: The Invisibility of the Founding Murder |
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105 | (21) |
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The 'Radical Elimination' |
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105 | (7) |
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'Negative Connotation', 'Positive Connotation' |
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112 | (8) |
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Physical Signs of the Surrogate Victim |
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120 | (6) |
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126 | (15) |
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Persecution Demystified: The Achievement of the Modern and Western World |
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126 | (4) |
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The Double Semantic Sense of the Word 'Scapegoat' |
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130 | (4) |
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The Historical Emergence of the Victimage Mechanism |
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134 | (7) |
| BOOK II: THE JUDAEO-CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES |
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Things hidden since the Foundation of the World |
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141 | (39) |
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Similarities between the Biblical Myths and World Mythology |
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141 | (3) |
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The Distinctiveness of the Biblical Myths |
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144 | (14) |
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The Gospel Revelation of the Founding Murder |
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158 | (22) |
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A Non-Sacrificial Reading of the Gospel Text |
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180 | (44) |
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180 | (2) |
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The Impossibility of the Sacrificial Reading |
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182 | (3) |
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185 | (5) |
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Powers and Principalities |
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190 | (6) |
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The Preaching of the Kingdom |
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196 | (6) |
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202 | (3) |
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The Non-Sacrificial Death of Christ |
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205 | (10) |
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215 | (5) |
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220 | (4) |
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The Sacrificial Reading and Historical Christianity |
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224 | (39) |
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Implications of the Sacrificial Reading |
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224 | (3) |
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The Epistle to the Hebrews |
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227 | (4) |
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The Death of Christ and the End of the Sacred |
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231 | (4) |
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Sacrifice of the Other and Sacrifice of the Self |
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235 | (2) |
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237 | (8) |
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A New Sacrificial Reading: The Semiotic Analysis |
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245 | (4) |
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The Sacrificial Reading and History |
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249 | (4) |
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253 | (10) |
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The Logos of Heraclitus and the Logos of John |
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263 | (20) |
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263 | (1) |
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The Two Types of Logos in Heidegger |
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264 | (6) |
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Defining the Johannine Logos in Terms of the Victim |
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270 | (4) |
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274 | (2) |
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276 | (7) |
| BOOK III: INTERDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY |
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283 | (16) |
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Acquisitive Mimesis and Mimetic Desire |
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283 | (1) |
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Mimetic Desire and the Modern World |
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284 | (3) |
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The Mimetic Crisis and the Dynamism of Desire |
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287 | (3) |
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The Mimesis of Apprenticeship and the Mimesis of Rivalry |
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290 | (1) |
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Gregory Bateson's 'Double Bind' |
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291 | (3) |
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From Object Rivalry to Metaphysical Desire |
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294 | (5) |
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299 | (27) |
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Doubles and Interdividuality |
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299 | (6) |
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305 | (5) |
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The Disappearance of the Object and Psychotic Structure |
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310 | (6) |
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316 | (10) |
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326 | (26) |
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What is known as 'Masochism' |
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326 | (2) |
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Theatrical 'Sado-Masochism' |
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328 | (7) |
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335 | (3) |
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Mimetic Latency and Rivalry |
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338 | (9) |
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The End of Platonism in Psychology |
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347 | (5) |
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352 | (41) |
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Freud's Platonism and the Use of the Oedipal Archetype |
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352 | (4) |
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How do you reproduce a Triangle? |
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356 | (3) |
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Mimesis and Representation |
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359 | (3) |
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The Double Genesis of Oedipus |
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362 | (2) |
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364 | (3) |
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Narcissism: Freud's Desire |
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367 | (15) |
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382 | (11) |
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393 | (40) |
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393 | (5) |
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Sacrifice and Psychotherapy |
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398 | (4) |
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Beyond the Pleasure Principle and Structural Psychoanalysis |
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402 | (7) |
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The Death Instinct and Modern Culture |
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409 | (7) |
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416 | (17) |
| To Conclude... |
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433 | (16) |
| Notes |
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449 | (8) |
| Bibliography |
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457 | (8) |
| Index |
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