I See Satan Fall Like Lighting is maybe the culmination of his life work. Whereas before he obsessively analyzes the psychology of imitative desire (mimetic desire), the prehistoric real origins of human mythology through the reoccurring patterns found in human myths, ancient religious rituals and sacrifice that continue right into the modern era. He is building his revolutionary and surprising (to himself) culmination of his theory of human social relations as completely subverted by the Gospel accounts of Jesus of Nazareth.
This singular story departs from the predictable narrative human mythologies and exposes all myths ancient and modern that require implanted desires, scapegoats and temporary social pressure valves that do nothing to relieve the underlying social issues but gladly sacrifice the victim anyway for a non-solution. This is not Sunday School gospel lessons. It's Girard at the height of his ability relentlessly pulling blinders off our eyes to see the story of Jesus and thus ourselves in ways unimaginable.
