I just reminded myself of something from off Silence of the Lambs. Know how he says, "We covet what we see every day"?
That could mean either wanting to get with the neighbour's wife or flat out be her.
I had to read this book called "The Dread of Difference" back in the day, and this fellow Christopher Sharrett wrote about "Girard's notion that all interchange, all language, all systems of belief spring from the imitative desire to possess what the Other has, to become a double to the Other, to destroy the Other as mimetic desire inevitably degenerates into rivalry and violence." (257)
There ya go, someone smart I can use to back me up.
"Acknowledging the Other by its obliteration"--even when one is trying to be that other.
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