Mimetic rivalry in ‘Envy’ and ‘Safe conduct’

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8 pages

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06/16/2009

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Table of Contents Mimetic rivalry in ‘Envy’ and ‘Safe conduct’ Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. Character analysis of Yuri Olesha's Envy and Boris Pasternak's Safe Conduct
  3. Traditional Rationalism-Romanticism dichotomy
  4. Overview of the study
  5. Conclusion
  6. Bibliography

Abstract

mimetic desire is the desire of an object, not because of a rational choice to fulfill one's own needs, but instead because that object fulfills the needs of a rival subject. It is meta-desire, desire of someone else's desire. mimetic desire develops out of an attempt to imitate the rival subject. The root of the desire is not in the object or in the desirer, but in "a third party, the model or mediator," whose desire is imitated "in the hope that [the] two beings will be 'fused.'" mimetic desire involves contradictory feelings of love and hate, attraction and repulsion. The Other is loved because he is a model for desire, but he is also hated because he denies fulfillment of that desire. mimetic rivalry leads to a vicious cycle. The desirer becomes an "obstacle addict...unable to desire in the absence of an obstacle-who-is-also-a-model." He is in a straitjacket, of his own design. The main characters in Yuri Olesha's envy and Boris Pasternak's safe conduct are both consumed by the brutal push-pull of mimetic rivalry.

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