Violence and the sacred

Rene Girard ; translated by Patrick Gregory
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1977
vii, 333 p. ; 24 cm.
Book
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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.
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  • Translation of La violence et le sacre.
  • Johns Hopkins University Press
  • text
  • volume
  • unmediated
  • https://cms.trccloud.hk/opac/bib/AFgu