mimetic faculty

is the faculty to copy, imitate, make models, explore difference, to yield into and become other. It is the nature that culture uses to create second nature.

the nature that culture uses to create second nature, the faculty to copy, imitate, make models, explore difference, yield into and become Other. The wonder of mimesis lies in the copy drawing on the character and power of the original, to the point whereby the representation may even assume that character and that power.' (Taussig, Michael. Mimesis and Alterity . (New York: Routeledge, 1993) xiii.)

mimetic faculty, n.Definitions

mimetic faculty