Glossary
The first psychological descriptor Jiang extracts for the people in hell: they want to dominate and direct others.
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Key Notes
Glossary
The modern obsession Jiang says makes unknown nature frightening and makes zoo animals preferable to forest animals.
definition
Jiang's immediate gloss is that Dante's visions arrive from above and are not under his personal control.
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Jiang claims long practice with Dante produces controllable visions that feed his teaching, so that imaginative scenes and interpretive ideas arrive on demand when he needs to teach a canto.
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Jiang steers the discussion toward lust as an expression of power and control rather than simple feeling.
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Jiang summarizes the room's provisional distinction by saying love gives itself to a person's full complexity while lust objectifies, possesses, and seeks control.
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diagnosis
Jiang begins defining the psychology of hell as a desire to control others, expressed through bossiness and domination.
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A student tentatively suggests that such a demand may really be an attempt to control the beloved rather than an expression of love.
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Jiang extends the same logic to the bank-robbery analogy: refusing a beloved's destructive demand can be the real act of love, while compliance would reveal possessiveness and the desire to control rather than love.
diagnosis
Jiang argues that logic is a system developed to control how people behave and think within our world.
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"Okay. So again, he's having visions now, okay? These visions just come to him. There's nothing he can do about it. These are just..."
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"...this for a long time, like I have, you're able to control these visions. You basically say, I need this vision in order to..."
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"And then on the cab right here, I know, okay? I know what I wanna focus on. I know what I wanna teach. It's..."
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"...so lust also comes from a place of power right of control right anyone else yes uh so"
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"sex is okay all right okay all right um yeah um any more thoughts before we continue okay so what i'm hearing is um..."
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"...it kind of the excuse is because you want to take control over you is it possible what is my"
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"go find someone who's right for her does that make sense okay so this goes back to this case where zepha is saying i..."
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"because i want to control you and that's an act of betrayal of love okay it doesn't make sense okay so the paradox can..."
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"...grade, okay? Logic is a system we develop in order to control the way you behave and think in our world, okay? But our..."
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