Jung agrees with Girard about mimesis. it's hazardous.
"Imitation includes
the idea of suggestibility, suggestive effect, and mental
infection.
we see daily how the mechanism of imitation is used,
or rather abused, for the purposes of personal differentiation;
some prominent personality, or peculiar trait or activity is
simply imitated
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"As a rule this delusive
attempt to attain individual differentiation by means of imitation
comes to a standstill as mere affectation,
the individual
remaining on the same plane as before,
only a few degrees
more sterile than formerly, and
under an unconscious compulsory bondage to his environment.”
“This state is characterised by an extraordinary loss of orientation about one's personality, about what one really is,
or else the individual has a positive but mistaken idea of that which he has just become.
Intolerance, dogmatism, self-conceit, self-depreciation,
contempt and belittling of
fellow-beings, and also of their opinions and activities, all very frequently
occur."
"the dissolution of the persona release of phantasy, which apparently is nothing
else but the functioning of the collective psyche.
This release
brings materials into consciousness of whose existence we had
no suspicion before.
the unconscious to a large extent ejects and replaces the conscious.
halluhallucinations
The unconscious is given
the value of reality, being substituted for the reality function.
voices, visions, hallucinations
become fixed ideas that supersede reality.”