When people, despite Dante\u2019s warning (Do not mimic me.), imitate Dante, they do by desiring the same \u201cobject\u201d, Christ, the \u201cvictim that brings everyone into relation\u201d.<\/p>\n
Their imitation should blind them to petrifying literary medusas such as Nietzsche and Rousseau, but it doesn\u2019t.\u00a0 In our world of unconstrained complexity, one cannot easily tell whether a symbolic order is formative or deformative, that is, whether it will inspire you to become \u201cwhat your (and everyone else\u2019s) heart desires\u201d or turn your heart to stone.<\/p>\n
Alberg\u2019s book is an attempt to find a way to tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When people, despite Dante\u2019s warning (Do not mimic me.), imitate Dante, they do by desiring the same \u201cobject\u201d, Christ, the \u201cvictim that brings everyone into relation\u201d. Their imitation should blind them to petrifying literary medusas such as Nietzsche and Rousseau, but it doesn\u2019t.\u00a0 In our world of unconstrained complexity, one cannot easily tell whether a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology-and-the-scapegoat-girard"],"yoast_head":"\n