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Jiang says heaven and hell are constructions of imagination and consequences of emotional state rather than merely external locations imposed by another judge.
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Jiang says heaven and hell are constructions of imagination and consequences of emotional state rather than merely external locations imposed by another judge.
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The Catholic Church, in Jiang's interpretation, is based not on the Bible but on the Aeneid's emotional structure.
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Greek creativity has an Apollonian rational mode and a Bacchic emotional mode, but Jiang says Virgil treats the Bacchic aspect as the worst emotion because it leads into madness.
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Earlier in Aeneas's story, the gods repeatedly intervene whenever he follows his own emotions or ideas; at the end he supplies the divine will himself.
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Memories change as a person develops; the same event can be reinterpreted later and produce a different emotional reaction.
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Jiang defines catharsis as the purging of feelings such as hubris and hatred through tears, leaving the person more whole.
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Poetic imagination sees beyond time, space, and ordinary reality, then distills emotions into words that help listeners connect to the divine.
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Jiang models identity and consciousness as a chain in which experiences become short-term memories, the brain filters them through emotions, emotionally strong memories enter identity, and unemotional experiences are discarded.
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"Okay? The problem is this. Sometimes we cannot love someone else. Okay? Sometimes our soul cannot expand outwards. It's trapped inside of us. Why?..."
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"And then he's able to restore himself. All right? Okay, so there's two dynamics at work. When you love someone, when you do good,..."
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"...emphasizes empire. So in other words, Virgil through the Inead created emotions in human beings that allow for the creation of hell itself. You..."
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"...but you also need to fully explore the possibilities of your emotions, to just let go, to be crazy, to be frenzied, okay?"
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"Each time this happened previously, the gods had to intervene, right? So remember how Aeneas is back in Troy and he's witnessed the killing..."
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"...epiphany, okay? I must abandon all pity. I must abandon all emotions. I must abandon my own soul if I am to serve the..."
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"So, it's possible over the course of your lifetime, you go back to the same event, but each time, you perceive it differently, which..."
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"that oh it's hubris that leads to tragedy and therefore it will make you a much more humble person okay this is what we..."
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"...and space, beyond this reality. And the poet then distills these emotions into words that help us ourselves connect to the divine. Okay? Poetry..."
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"...What happens is that our brains will filter these memories into emotions. Okay? So basically you will index your experiences according to their emotional..."
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"...Okay? Basically, why do we respond to different experiences with different emotions? It doesn't make sense. So you have the same experience, but you..."
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"Okay? So you might get a 50 on a test. Some of you will be really sad, but some of you will be like..."
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