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          "From childhood men have an instinct for representation, and in this respect, differs from the other animals that he is far more imitative and learns his first lessons by representing things." -Poetics, Aristotle, tr.

          W.H. Fyfe

          Mimesis (from μιμεῖσθαι) is a critical and philosophical term that carries a wide range of meanings, which include: imitation, representation, mimicry, imitatio, nonsensuous similarity, the act of resembling, the act of expression, and the presentation of the self.

          Mimesis has been theorised by Plato, Aristotle, Philip Sidney, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Erich Auerbach, Luce Irigaray and Michael Taussig.

          Classical definitions

          Plato

          Both Plato and Aristotle saw in mimesis (Greek μίμησις) the representation of nature.

          Plato wrote about mimesis in both Ion and The Republic (Books II, III a