Glossary
Jiang's term for the imaginative self-separation by which a person both acts in the world and observes the whole scene from outside it.
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Disassociation
A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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definition
To be human means to be conscious, and consciousness is ultimately an act of imagination in which part of the self steps back from speech and action to observe and analyze them.
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"...speaking, you have to step back. Okay? We actually call this disassociation. You have to disassociate yourself. Disassociate, meaning basically that as you're speaking,..."
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"Yes? I usually try to dissolve myself, a kind of disassociation in order to assimilate within the painting, trying to forget yourself, trying to..."
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"Okay, so he says that one thing about this trauma is disassociation, okay? So these patients will reveal details that would shock anyone else,..."
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"...you? What happens to you? You're not there. The word is disassociation. Okay? You're not there. You don't remember anything. Because your mind will..."
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"So, this is all to create trauma, which creates disassociation, which allows the priest to program the Pharaoh. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay...."
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...
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The lecture turns evil into a technology of dissociation: ancient priests allegedly learn to split the pharaoh into identities, modern institutions learn to do it to everyone, and the hard refrain is that social...
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