Jealousy. Heometry of desire

Desire begins with jealousy. So believes Jean-Pierre Dupui (b. 1941), Franco-American philosopher, professor of Stanford University and a member of the French Academy of Technology. On the most diverse material - from Shakespeare’s novels to the ads of capsule coffee - he proves that the desire is not so much by imitation, as Rene Girard believed, but the exclusion of the subject from the world, to which he would like to belong and which precisely by force His inaccessibility becomes desirable and attractive to him. The author explores the mechanism of jealousy and reveals its action in various fields of our lives: in love, in the family, in the career - and even in politics.
The book includes the afterword of Olivier Ray (b. 1964), in which the French philosopher and specialist in transgumanism correlates the theory of jealousy with psychoanalysis