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Jiang presents modern ideologies as replacement gods: capitalism makes money into God, Enlightenment liberalism makes reason into God, modernism makes the individual into God, and nationalism makes the nation into God.
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Modernism
Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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Modernism is defined as the cult of the self: a culture obsessed with self-improvement and self-empowerment.
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Jiang's thesis is that Freud became famous not because psychoanalysis helped patients, but because it protected powerful men.
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Jung spreads Freud's influence by systematizing the unconscious into popular concepts such as personality types, introvert, and extrovert.
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Jiang treats Joyce's Ulysses as a founding modernist work that imitates and tries to surpass Dante while turning literature toward style, music, allusion, and elite interpretation.
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Jiang contrasts Joyce with Dante: Dante uses poetry to bring people into the mind of God, while Joyce makes readers spend years entering Joyce's own mind.
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Dostoevsky is used as the counter-model: the heart is a deep ocean, psychology responds to the world, and salvation requires others and community rather than self-mastery.
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"The Protestant Reformation removes the Catholic Church from the equation. Now you are in direct communion with God and you must show absolute faith..."
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"...Jung and this has become the basis for what we call modernism right which is still with us today. And then there's proposed another..."
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"All right and it turns out that of all these ideas the most powerful, the most resilient, the most enduring is God. And that..."
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"...Jung will become the basis of a major cultural movement called modernism. And modernism is the cultural movement that we still live in today...."
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"so influential and so famous not because it's like what analyst system was designed to help his patients ultimately his system was designed to..."
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"...is what we still use today. The main influence is in modernism, a transformative art movement beginning around the early 20th century. All right."
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"So arguably, the first great modern art movement. The first artist is James Joyce, who in 1922 published Ulysses. James Joyce was Irish. He..."
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"Okay. The first reason is he was a singer. So you have to read what he writes as though it's music. Okay. It's meant..."
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"And there are many who tell me, yeah, James Joyce is hard. But if you just spend the time to go over what he's..."
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"The Lighthouse is really about memory, about perception, about remembering. All right. But again, it's extremely self -indulgent and it's inward looking and it's..."
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"yes okay yes maybe post -modernism so like the annihilation of all the trusted authorities before like the cancel culture movement yes it's"
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"...you have this massive transition from monotheism, the Christian period, into modernism, all right? And this turning point, which is the most radical turning..."
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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Freud is not introduced as a neutral founder of psychology.
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The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
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