2023-11-17 17:41:05
Social networks tend to impose a single model. It is very toxic on a psychological level. Pinel
PSYCHOLOGY – Having models allows man to desire and learn. But be careful never to abdicate our freedom.
In 1972 appeared Violence and the Sacred, by René Girard. For this anthropologist, the violence that agitates human societies is the result of the conflict generated by mimetic desire, namely the lust for the same object. This results in a theory of the human psyche that psychiatrist Jean-Michel Oughourlian, author of This other one who obsesses me (Albin Michel), summarizes as follows: “Human desire is mimetic, suggested, inspired by the desire of the other.”
It is thanks to mimicry that children learn to speak, walk, write… They take their family and those around them as models. But this movement does not stop at childhood, far from it. “We are practically obliged to imitate othersnotes Jean-Michel Oughourlian. What was initially just a hypothesis formulated by René Girard was confirmed by the discovery of “mirror neurons” in the brain. If we record by PET scan the brain activity of a person drinking and that of another who is looking at them, we see…
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