Kill With Kindness -- Mimetic Theory and Literary Study

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Date Posted: 20:21:44 02/27/08 Wed
Author: Caitlin
Subject: Kill With Kindness

Today in lecture Dr. Jackson mentioned a common childhood situation. Angry at a parent, yet the parent says "That's OK because I still love you". I'm pretty sure this situation or at least something very similar has happened to all of us at one point or another in our lives. I know that while my brother and I tease my mom (while a much less harsh abuse but my point is still made) she likes to laugh and return our quips with "I still love you". I also remembered a passage from "I See Satan Fall" that dealt with the same ideals except as shown through the example of the cross.

"Christ does not achieve this victory through violence. He obtains it through a renunciation of violence so complete that violence can rage to its heart's content without realizing that by so doing, it reveals what it must conceal, without suspecting that its fury will turn back against it this time because it will be recorded and represented with exactness in the Passion narratives" (140).

I think this passage does a great job of portraying the concealing effect of reciprocal violence. While violence met with violence seems to cancel the effects on each other in the sacrificial cycle, violence met with love and abstinence from said violence makes the active violence stand out even more. I think it has a lot to do with opposites emphasizing differences. For example, it's harder to see different shades of black when they are next to each other because each shade blends into the next to form a type of continual color. However, when shades of black are placed next to white, differences can more easily be seen.

This also relates to prior comments of Girard on the question of Satan expelling Satan.

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Replies:

Re: Kindness and Forgiveness -- Erin Risch, 08:20:14 03/01/08 Sat
- Re: 2 More Points -- Caitlin, 22:16:43 03/02/08 Sun
Re: Kill With Kindness -- Katelyn R., 19:58:41 03/01/08 Sat