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For this reason, many therapists-beginning with Freud-have clients create a 'mimesis' - meaning they role-play the situation from the offending party's perspective.— SteveFarber.com
The hope is that, through this mimesis role-playing, patients might better understand why someone might have emotionally taken a bite out of them, so they can avoid being bitten again!— SteveFarber.com
First, I am sure you understand that the idea in the opening lines from Marx (with an attribution to Hegel) is meant to be a sort of literary trope whereby Marx seeks to make a point about mimesis, about imitation of earlier characters and events by those who seek to change the order of things.— Kafila
Mild Pixies mimesis - on "Diego Rivera," "Moscow Bride," and sporadically throughout - reaches no logical conclusion, and John Renton's watery timbre isn't suited to the heavy lifting he attempts.— DOA
Whence this neglect to practise mimesis, 'protective mimicry'?— The Mason-Bees

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