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Jiang says Thy Neighbor's Wife is driven by the problem of liberating the divine spark from the husk, and he maps the book's first proposed solution onto masturbation as a form of concentrated meditation.
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Masturbation
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Jiang interprets Harold Rubin's masturbation not as mere lust but as religious devotion and self-offering to an imagined divine figure embodied in Diane Webber.
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"Okay? And so, this is a fundamental conflict in the universe. How do we go about repairing the world? Well, we go about repairing..."
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"But in a sexual sense, what is meditation? Meditation is masturbation. I know this sounds really weird. Okay, I know this is going to..."
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"...you to focus on is the fact that this act of masturbation is really one of devotion. Okay? Religious devotion. You can read this..."
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"...three different solutions together. Okay? So the first is meditation through masturbation. All right. So this is chapter one. This is a man named..."
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"...whole, okay? So again, I understand this is a scene about masturbation, but what makes it genius, what makes it beautiful and divine is..."
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"Since childhood masturbation is such a general occurrence and is at the same time so poorly remembered, it must have an equivalent in psychic..."
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"...who then endeavored to break the child of the habit of masturbation, of which they themselves had by that time become the unwitting cause...."
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"All right? So let's look at the new Freud. Since child masturbation is such a general occurrence and is at the same time so..."
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"...All right, so let's look at the new Freud. Since child masturbation is such a general occurrence and is at the same time so..."
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"...who then endeavor to break the child of the habit of masturbation. Okay, so what Freud is trying to say is, young girls from..."
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