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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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  • What If the Self Were Shaped by Love, Not Lack?
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  • Hooked on the “Ifs” — Henri Nouwen and the Mimetic False Self

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  • The True Model Revealed: Christ as the Anti-Rivalrous Model
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  • Hooked on the “Ifs” — Henri Nouwen and the Mimetic False Self

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