Mimetic Desire in Shakespeare’s King Lear

The dynamic of desire is a phenomenon all too familiar to the human condition. Everyday experience attests to the conviction that desire assumes a linear path which projects from the subject directly to the object of the affection. Such a concept embraces the assumption that the object possesses some intrinsic value that naturally elicits an affective response, which is perhaps the dominant opinion about human desire. The feelings generally associated with desire are so naturally …

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