Violence and the sacred
René Girard (Author), Patrick Gregory (Translator)
This study of good and evil examines the presence of ritual violence in sacred ceremony
Print Book, English, 1977
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1977
vii, 333 pages ; 24 cm
9780801819636, 9780826477187, 9780801822186, 0801819636, 0826477186, 0801822181
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Sacrifice
The sacrificial crisis
Oedipus and the surrogate victim
The origins of myth and ritual
Dionysus
From mimetic desire to the monstrous double
Freud and the Oedipus complex
Totem and Taboo and the incest prohibition
Levi-Strauss, structuralism, and marriage laws
The gods, the dead, the sacred, and sacrificial substitution
The unity of all rites
Translation of: La violence et le sacré, originally published in French in 1972