Glossary
Used critically as the idea that thinking happy thoughts can solve suffering or poverty.
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positive psychology
Used critically as the idea that thinking happy thoughts can solve suffering or poverty.
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Glossary
Jiang's negative example of treating happiness and suffering as internal states one can think away.
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diagnosis
Jiang links learned helplessness and positive psychology through Martin Seligman and provocatively calls school-taught positive psychology brainwashing.
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diagnosis
Modern dismissal of gods as mere symbols also dismisses hatred, vengeance, and evil as mere states of mind, which Jiang links to positive psychology.
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"...is also the person who developed a... A new theory called positive psychology. His name is Martin Sigelman. Okay? So positive psychology that you're..."
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"...you think happy thoughts, you'll be good. Okay. This idea of positive psychology, right, that we have today. Carl Jung and Friedrich Schumann for..."
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"Have you studied positive psychology? It's the dumbest idea in the world, okay? It's the idea that if you think you're happy, then you're..."
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"...then you're fine, okay? The word we use for this is positive psychology."
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"...as you think happy thoughts, you'll be good. This idea of positive psychology, right? That we have today. Carl Jung and Friedrich Sömer and..."
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The lecture turns evil into a technology of dissociation: ancient priests allegedly learn to split the pharaoh into identities, modern institutions learn to do it to everyone, and the hard refrain is that social...
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Freud is not introduced as a neutral founder of psychology.
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Christianity wins twice in this lecture: first as a Roman-compatible institution, then as a strange formula that trains people to treat symbols as reality.
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