The Scapegoat¶
Girard, R. (1982/1986). The Scapegoat. Le bouc émissaire.
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- Scapegoating
- It separates two states — a collective burdened by unattributable distress and a collective that has restored felt unity by expelling a victim — and names the transfer between them, a transfer Girard (1986) describes as the "scapegoat mechanism" precisely because its participants cannot see it operating from the inside.
This sourceSystematic statement of the "scapegoat mechanism" as invisible to its participants; supports the self-concealment of the mechanism, the proportionality/recurrence tests distinguishing it from accountability, and the transfer of the ritual-sacrifice analysis to other social settings via a shared structural skeleton.
- It separates two states — a collective burdened by unattributable distress and a collective that has restored felt unity by expelling a victim — and names the transfer between them, a transfer Girard (1986) describes as the "scapegoat mechanism" precisely because its participants cannot see it operating from the inside.
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