Mark Rogin Anspach's Books

These hard-to-find writings afford an inside look at the emergence of Girard's scapegoat theory from his pioneering analysis of rivalry and desire. Girard unbinds the Oedipal triangle from its Freudian moorings, replacing desire for the mother with desire for anyoneor anythinga rival desires.

How do humans stop fighting? Where do the gods of myth come from? What does it mean to go mad? Mark R. Anspach tackles these and other conundrums as he draws on ethnography, literature, psychotherapy, and the theory of René Girard to explore some of the fundamental mechanisms of human interaction. Likening gift exchange to vengeance in reverse, the first part of the book outlines a fresh approach to reciprocity, while the second part traces the emergence of transcendence in collective myths and individual delusions. From the peacemaking rituals of prestate societies to the paradoxical structure of consciousness, Anspach takes the reader on an intellectual journey that begins with the problem of how to deceive violence and ends with the riddle of how one can deceive oneself.

Beginning with the return: vengeance in reverse -- Violence deceived -- Trying to stop the Trojan War -- Return to the beginning: the making of a meta-god -- Madness in the making, or unanimity minus one -- No exit? Madness and the divided self

Book's by Mark Rogin Anspach

Oedipus Unbound

Oedipus Unbound

Vengeance in Reverse

Vengeance in Reverse

Vengeance in Reverse

Vengeance in Reverse

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