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The figure who cares too much about self-image and becomes the key analogy for Jiang's reading of Dante's objection.
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narcissist
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"Yeah. Narcissist. You understand? Remember Narcissist?"
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"...-indulgence um but like there also can be a like those narcissists can also hold a strong will right while being like uh self..."
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"with uh to a narcissist okay all right so yesterday i i i did say the problem homosexuality is self -indulgence and i recognize..."
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"...would be sufficient invitation. She have you like the mirror of narcissists. I was intent on listening to them when this was what my..."
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"...you're really doing is loving yourself. It's a narcissism, right? Because narcissists saw himself in the mirror and he wanted to like have sex..."
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"Why is Dante neglecting the narcissist aspect in heterosexuality? Because like, as we see today, there are people who focus on looks. To attract..."
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"...of society, then they're good. But if there are behaving like narcissists, that's bad. Okay. That can only mean the destruction of society because..."
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"But we all know that you are vain. Okay? You're a narcissist. You're an asshole. You came here to win glory for yourself. You're..."
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"...though, is, as you say, he is an egomaniac. He's a narcissist. He considers himself as a messiah. So, is he happy being number..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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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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Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
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