Re: Covetousness and Mimetic Desire -- Mimetic Theory and Literary Study

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Date Posted: 18:56:33 01/27/08 Sun
Author: JD
Subject: Re: Covetousness and Mimetic Desire
In reply to: Jfish 's message, "Covetousness and Mimetic Desire" on 18:12:50 01/26/08 Sat

I think that you're heading in the wrong direction in trying to differentiate mimetic desire and covetousness. First of all, you are only attributing a degree of "goodness" to covetousness, yet we have already discussed that all mimetic desire is not bad. The problem only comes when we have chosen(consciously or not) a poor model to follow. I think that at this battle between unconscious/conscious choice is the place in which the difference between mimetic desire and covetousness arises. It seems that in mimetic desire, the choice of model is more often an unconscious choice, especially when the desire is internally mediated. Covetous desire appears different in that it focuses on an object that we voluntarily choose to want. This "choice" is the kicker; we already know that this sort of thing (choice of object to covet) is ,at many times, an illusion. It is simply denying the mediator and saying that we directly desire something that happens to be in the possession of someone else. I think to try and break it away from the mimetic process is, in itself, a denial of the process itself

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