This, perhaps the best book by the distinguished French philosopher, has become a powerful challenge to conventional views on literature, anthropology, religion and psychoanalysis. In a dialogue with two psychiatrists (Jean-Michel Ougourlian and Guy Lefort), Girard, with polemical courage and amazing erudition, touches on an encyclopedic range of issues, including the entire spectrum of modern anthropology, psychoanalysis and cultural development. Series “Philosophy and Theology”. This series publishes books written by leading contemporary authors, in which the problems of interaction between philosophy and religion are considered from a historical and theoretical perspective.