Glossary
Jiang's label for a biblical narrative move that redirects attention from David's murder of Uriah to the less politically dangerous Bathsheba offense.
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Gaslighting
Jiang's label for a biblical narrative move that redirects attention from David's murder of Uriah to the less politically dangerous Bathsheba offense.
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Glossary
Jiang's repeated description of Augustine's rhetorical method: twisting moral premises so listeners accept obedience and passivity.
diagnosis
Jiang says later Freud reframed female hysteria as attention-seeking and control, turning psychology into gaslighting rather than patient advocacy.
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Nathan's parable reframes David's crime from murder to adultery/theft, which Jiang calls gaslighting because it makes readers forget Uriah's killing.
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Jiang says bureaucratic gaslighting occurs when the government refuses to acknowledge recession or decline and tells people their perception of hardship is wrong.
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Jiang presents dream interpretation as Freud's solution for persuading patients to reinterpret remembered abuse as fantasy, because dreams allow subtle suggestion and memory recoding.
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Jiang argues that Freud's interpretation of dreams let him suggest new ideas and memories to patients, effectively implanting memories and gaslighting them.
definition
He defines Augustine's logic of empire as power's ability to harm people and then deny the harm, because the powerful control the terms of reality.
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"It's complete other nonsense. Agreed. All right? Can you keep on reading, Amber? The motives."
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"The motives for illness often begin to stir in childhood. The love -hungry little girl, unhappy at having to share her parents' affection with..."
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"to treat her with care if she recovers, because otherwise a relapse would be waiting in the wings. Her illness is apparently objective and..."
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"...attention, but it also makes people obey her whims. This is gaslighting. This is peer and other gaslighting. And guys, this is what psychology..."
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"...he killed Uriah all right so this is what we call gaslighting you see how clever this is Uriah all right so this is..."
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"...of recession. It's called transition, okay? This is what we call gaslighting. This is blatant gaslighting. Rather than just say, you know what? The..."
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"He died 14 days later. All right? So this is the fate that will happen to you in Vienna if you defy powerful people...."
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"If you talk about your dreams, that allows you to suggest subtly new ideas and new memories, to basically implant new memories and basically..."
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"If you defy powerful people. So now, we have an explanation for why Freud made the transition, why he changed his story. But now..."
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"To basically implant new memories and basically gaslight that person. Does that make sense? So the interpretation of dreams. So that is the story..."
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"...wrong against God okay so this argument I mean it's really gaslighting okay and he does this a lot in his in his thing..."
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"...understand is he studied rhetoric and so he's very good at gaslighting okay so twisting things in order to force your compliance all right..."
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Freud is not introduced as a neutral founder of psychology.
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