humza rana

Mimetic desire continued:

fig. 1. Prohibition suppresses violence and forbids mimesis (desire); Ritual channels violence and releases mimesis. A structure that only prohibits will eventually explode, and one that only ritualizes has no structure to return to.

fig. 2. The sacred is a relation to a boundary.

fig. 3. Girard cycle: violence is self-concealing (cycle ends with violence looking like order). Prohibition and ritual then work to prevent the next crisis while systematically obscuring that the last one was ever a crisis at all.