Apr 28 2016 19 mins 2
A lot of us go around thinking that we are who we think we are, which is another way of saying that we might easily believe that we are best understood in terms of what we know. This doesn't make as much sense as we may think it does. In this episode, I look at the way that desire gives rise to, and animates, the self—and the fact that desire is always mimetic. I'm drawing a lot of great sources: James KA Smith's 'Desiring the Kingdom,' Rene Girard's 'Deceit, Desire, and the Novel,' Marcus Borg's 'Speaking Christian,' J-M Oughourlian's 'The Genesis of Desire,' and Todd McGowan's 'The Fictional Christopher Nolan.'
