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He uses Anna Karenina as an example of how desire framed as love can become control and domination when subordinated to ego.
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Psychology
He models Patroclus and Achilles as internally layered actors, directors, and producers: emotion, calculation, and long-term strategy operate simultaneously inside each person.
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He models Patroclus and Achilles as internally layered actors, directors, and producers: emotion, calculation, and long-term strategy operate simultaneously inside each person.
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Jiang's standard psychology model says experiences become emotional memories, memories organize identity, and identity shapes worldview, preference, decisions, and future perception.
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Modern psychology can describe personality development psychologically, but it does not know where values and memories are formed, stored, and accessed in the brain.
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The standard identity model also fails to explain empathy or theory of mind, meaning how one person can perceive the emotions of others.
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Jiang rejects this later Freudian theory as nonsense that nevertheless became mainstream academic knowledge for decades.
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Jung is said to systematize Freud's ideas into a broader understanding of the mind that eventually informs neuroscience.
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Jiang argues that burying treasure with the dead is irrational if one believes the dead cannot take money to the spiritual realm, so excessive capital must change the psychology of the wealthy.
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"While his is waning and waning, and that's why we're drifting apart. Okay? So, she demands Count Wronski love her as much as possible...."
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"We walk to meet each other up to the time of our love. And then we have been irresistibly driven in different directions. And..."
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"I know all that. But it makes me, it makes it no better for me. Without loving me, from duty, he'll be good and..."
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"But a human can't do that. And when a human tries to become a God, a human can only become a tyrant. Okay. And..."
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"He refuses to apologize. But he tells Patroclus, listen, we can't get Achilles to fight, but maybe you can fight for us. And maybe..."
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"Planning level, all right? So imagine three different individuals together in Patroclus. The first person is the actor, okay? The person who appears before..."
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"Now, Achilles is the same, right? Because Patroclus cannot understand Achilles' mentality, okay? So the actor in Achilles is like, why are you crying,..."
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"...future. Okay? All right? So, this is a standard model of psychology, which you should have learned in psychology class. All right. There's some..."
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"I know this because all three of my kids are different from both my wife and myself. Okay? So the question is, where does..."
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"...Okay? So we have these three major problems created by modern psychology. Okay? The first is, where does our personality come from? Because our..."
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"Okay, so now this is like really weird, okay? What he's saying is these young girls, these young boys, they want to have sex...."
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"Okay, so do you understand? So when the person is talking about his dream, you can now make suggestions. That person will believe whatever..."
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