What have I learned from Alberg’s slim volume?<\/p>\n
Both Nietzsche and Rousseau constructed symbolic orders that turned hearts to stone.<\/p>\n
Dante pointed to the symbolic order of the Christ.<\/p>\n
Jesus, along with the prophets, constructed the first symbolic order from the perspective of the victim.<\/p>\n
Flannery O\u2019Connor wrote from the point of view of the victim; that is, the corpse.\u00a0 In doing so, she portrayed the Nothing at the heart of symbolic orders manufactured after the Fall.<\/p>\n
Each symbolic order relies on mimesisconstrained<\/sup>.<\/sub><\/p>\n Mimesisunconstrained<\/sup> re-enacts mimesisconstrained<\/sup> in scandalous and problematic ways.<\/p>\n If \u201cscandal\u201d fascinates on the surface and blocks the path to deeper understanding, then \u201cscandal\u201d it is.\u00a0 If \u201cforgiveness\u201d removes the block of \u201cscandal\u201d, then \u201cforgiveness\u201d it must be.<\/p>\n Discovery is located where scandals lurk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What have I learned from Alberg’s slim volume? Both Nietzsche and Rousseau constructed symbolic orders that turned hearts to stone. Dante pointed to the symbolic order of the Christ. Jesus, along with the prophets, constructed the first symbolic order from the perspective of the victim. Flannery O\u2019Connor wrote from the point of view of the […]<\/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-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology-and-the-scapegoat-girard"],"yoast_head":"\n