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The disabling conflict between incompatible beliefs, desires, or facts, exemplified by Penelope, Telemachus, and Odysseus.
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Cognitive dissonance
The disabling conflict between incompatible beliefs, desires, or facts, exemplified by Penelope, Telemachus, and Odysseus.
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Conflict between worldview and reality, used here to explain Odysseus' trauma after Troy.
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The discomfort produced when a new myth disrupts the old myth people use to understand the world. Identity-disrupting discomfort caused by reform that changes the reality people live inside.
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Poetry works by being memorized, entering the reader like a virus, creating cognitive dissonance, and remaking the reader's perception over decades.
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Jiang divides human consciousness into mind, spirit, and soul; happiness comes when the three correspond, while disunity produces cognitive dissonance, trauma, and depression.
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After the suitors are killed, the remaining problem is mental reconciliation: soul and spirit have been restored, but Penelope's mind still needs an explanation for twenty years of absence and disguise.
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Penelope's depression comes from being unable to reconcile her feeling that Odysseus lives with the rational evidence that he is likely dead after twenty years.
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Agamemnon's cognitive dissonance freezes him so completely that Odysseus can take the royal scepter, which Jiang reads as part of Agamemnon's soul, legacy, and authority.
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Jiang defines cognitive dissonance as conflict between worldview and reality.
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Myth making is dangerous because a new myth disrupts old myths people rely on, producing cognitive dissonance and political anxiety.
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Caesar is killed by friends and close associates because changing Rome, even for Rome's good, produces cognitive dissonance and anxiety about the future.
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"...distinct and so powerful is the idea of paradox or maybe dissonance, cognitive dissonance. And so, all poetry is designed to be memorized. It's..."
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"...interact with it, the more it enters you and it creates cognitive dissonance, meaning that it is disrupting the normal way you see the..."
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"move together back to the monad and with the monad our love is imprinted and this love becomes a force unto itself that compels..."
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"...in conflict with each other and this creates the idea of cognitive dissonance and this leads to trauma and depression and that's the issue..."
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"Does that make sense? Right now, these three different planes believe different things. There's a different narrative. And they must combine this narrative into..."
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"okay so now what's what will happen is it's almost as though a normal person is now transforming into a Superman okay and because..."
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"...distant, okay? Odysseus has revealed himself, but Penelope has caught a dissonance, okay? She's still depressed, and she doesn't yet want to admit in..."
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"Come, Eurycleia, move the sturdy bedstead out of our bridal chamber, that room the master built with his own hands. Take it out now,..."
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"...Okay? And so her response, and this is what we call cognitive dissonance. Her response is just to shut down. Okay? She just spends..."
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"...all these things are the same thing. It's really one of cognitive dissonance."
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"They've seen so much violence, they've seen so much tragedy, they've seen so much senseless death, that their souls are shattered, and that is..."
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"...and fight for you, Agamemnon. All right. So it's kind of dissonance. It's so much kind of dissonance that when Odysseus takes the royal..."
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Dante is not offering a church-approved tour of the afterlife.
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The Odyssey ends by making love more important than empire, fame, and heroic death.
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Julius Caesar was not only a general or politician.
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