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Jiang explicitly identifies Dante's response to tragic art as crying and uses that response to open a broader theory of catharsis.
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Crying
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...he feeling? What is he doing? Yes? I'd say grieving. He's crying. Yeah. Right? It literally says he's crying. Okay? So now I want..."
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definition
Catharsis is defined by Jiang as purging or releasing emotion, with crying treated as the bodily discharge through which tragedy works on the soul.
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Jiang argues that empathy is what leads to crying in response to tragedy, because the viewer perceives the pain of others rather than mocking it.
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Jiang adds a communal dimension: a group that cries together over tragedy becomes connected to one another, so catharsis is also a mechanism of community formation.
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Jiang partially accepts that Lucifer may retain feeling or a vegetative kind of consciousness because he cries, even while insisting he is not fully conscious in the ordinary sense.
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Jiang corrects his earlier statement by saying Lucifer cries not because he is conscious but because all beings long for God and permanent distance from God is eternal unhappiness.
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"...he feeling? What is he doing? Yes? I'd say grieving. He's crying. Yeah. Right? It literally says he's crying. Okay? So now I want..."
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"...purging. Basically, throw up and release your emotions. Okay? That's what crying is. You're purging yourself. Okay? So why would that be Why would..."
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"Yes? I guess you can start to feel all over your body the pain of other people who have also felt tragedy."
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"Because what leads to the crying is the empathy, right? That is what leads to the crying because you see the pain in others...."
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"That's right. That's right. That's right. So that's the idea here. Where if you where a tragedy is watched by a group of people..."
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"Right, that is correct, yes. He feels, he is crying, yes. That's a very interesting comment, yes. And what would he make of this?..."
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"So it's possible he's conscious and he's crying, yes."
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"...from this morning okay the first issue is why is lucifer crying we said he was not conscious uh we said he was just..."
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"...can never be with god okay so that's why lucifer is crying that doesn't actually mean he's conscious um but it just means that..."
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"...and ran and two in front of them who wept were crying in her journey mary made haste to reach the mountain in order..."
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"...and lamentations. Then I, by chance, heard one ahead of us crying in his lament, Sweet Mary, as a woman would outcry in labor..."
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