The Iron Triangle

René Girard's Mimetic Theory, Part 2

I ended Part 1 by introducing the central geometric figure of desire—the triangle—that René Girard discovers in his first book, Mensonge romantique et la Verite Romanesque — translated as Deceit, Desire and the Novel. I’m going to finish sketching the theory of triangular desire as it appears in that book and then introduce a little more context that I …