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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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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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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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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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06May

Boomers, Rebels, and the Composite Model

May 6, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog
Generational Formation through Mimetic Lenses We do not inherit desire directly—we inherit models of desire. We watch, absorb, imitate. And...
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01May

My Parents, My Enemies: Generational Conflict and the Pain of Inherited Models

May 1, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog
Why does it so often feel like our deepest wounds come from the people who loved us first? And why—when...
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29Apr

Do Whatever He Tells You: Marian Formation and the Restoration of the Self

April 29, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog
“Do whatever he tells you.”(John 2:5) Why Mary Matters for Mimetic Formation In a world saturated by unstable models —...
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24Apr

When We Make Ourselves the Model: On the Illusion of Christlikeness

April 24, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog
This post is part of an ongoing series on mimetic theory and composite models.Last time, we explored St. Augustine and...
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23Apr

The Death of Rivalry: Humility vs. Self-Esteem in an Age of Mimetic Confusion

April 23, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog
A reflection on Fr. Augustine Wetta’s Humility Rules and The Moral Imagination podcast “You don’t need higher self-esteem. You need...
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22Apr
St. Augustine and the Conversion of Desire – Confessions as a Mimetic Journey

St. Augustine and the Conversion of Desire – Confessions as a Mimetic Journey

April 22, 2025 Rico McCahon Blog
This post is part of an ongoing series on mimetic theory and composite models.Last time, we explored how narrative identity...
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