Verbatim quote · from the corpus

“The mediation of the center is above all an operation of interdiction ; the sacred being that guarantees the exchange process is what is forbidden, unexchangeable at least for a time, and the energetic investment of mimetic desire transferred to the sacred center is not “discharged” but on the contrary consecrated to the object of communal devotion.”

— Eric Gans, The Market and Resentment (I) · Saturday, June 28th, 2003 · Chronicles of Love & Resentment