The Scapegoat¶
Girard, R. (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
- 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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