05Jun Moving the Blog to Substack June 5, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog The Cornerstone Revisited by The Cornerstone Forum A new beginning for Cornerstone Forum, quietly, together. “In my beginning is my...Read more
03Jun What If the Self Were Shaped by Love, Not Lack? June 3, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog In the last post, we asked: If Christ reorients our desires, then the inner structure of the self must be...Read more
29May The True Model Revealed: Christ as the Anti-Rivalrous Model May 29, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog Every desire has a model. This is the fundamental insight of Rene Girard with his mimetic theory: that we do...Read more
27May What If the Culture Is the Model? May 27, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog Cultural Formation and Mimetic Saturation What if the culture isn’t just a background noise, but the model itself? That’s the...Read more
22May Hooked on the “Ifs” — Henri Nouwen and the Mimetic False Self May 22, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog Henri Nouwen once confessed: “A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise...Read more
20May IFS and the Mystery of Multiplicity – Critiquing Internal Family Systems May 20, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog “You are not broken. You are just complex.” So goes the comforting refrain of Internal Family Systems (IFS), the therapeutic...Read more
15May “The Zealot Who Knows”: Rivalry, Revelation, and the Conversion of St. Peter May 15, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog We often think of envy, rivalry, and scandal as threats to the self. And they are. But mimetic theory complicates...Read more
13May Trauma as Mimetic Contradiction: Troubleshooting the Furnace of Our Desire May 13, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog We tend to think of trauma as something that happens to us—an event, an injury, a loss. But when viewed...Read more
10May Suddenly Fans of Tennis: A Lighthearted Case of Mimetic Desire May 10, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog Last week, in Habemus Papam: A Pause in Our Series on Composite Models, we reflected on how the election of...Read more
08May Habemus Papam: A Pause in Our Series on Composite Models May 8, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog We will return next week to our ongoing series on trauma, scapegoating, and the formation of the self through remembered...Read more
Moving the Blog to Substack
What If the Self Were Shaped by Love, Not Lack?
The True Model Revealed: Christ as the Anti-Rivalrous Model
What If the Culture Is the Model?
Hooked on the “Ifs” — Henri Nouwen and the Mimetic False Self
IFS and the Mystery of Multiplicity – Critiquing Internal Family Systems
“The Zealot Who Knows”: Rivalry, Revelation, and the Conversion of St. Peter
Trauma as Mimetic Contradiction: Troubleshooting the Furnace of Our Desire
Suddenly Fans of Tennis: A Lighthearted Case of Mimetic Desire
Habemus Papam: A Pause in Our Series on Composite Models