The Sacrificial Rumour: Why the Scapegoat Is Chosen, and What the Trance Does
Jean-Luc Delfin reads rumour as a survival of the sacrificial ritual: an archaic mechanism whose three phases - derealisation, fascination, sacrifice - map onto Edgar Morin's incubation, propagation and metastasis, and whose modern form is the media lynching. With Girard, Lempert, Voyé and Rosnow, and a note on what it does to those who cannot recover from it.