Violence and the Sacred"His fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the 'heart and secret soul' of the sacred. Girard's fertile, combative mind links myth to prophetic writing, primitive religions to classical tragedy."--Victor Brombert, Chronicle of Higher Education. |
Contents
Two The Sacrificial Crisis | 39 |
Three Oedipus and the Surrogate Victim | 68 |
Seven Freud and the Oedipus Complex | 169 |
Eight Totem and Taboo and the Incest Prohibition | 193 |
Nine LéviStrauss Structuralism and Marriage Laws | 223 |
Ten The Gods the Dead the Sacred and Sacrificial | 250 |
Eleven The Unity of All Rites | 274 |
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