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Jiang applies PTSD to Odysseus' postwar shame, paralysis, and loss of capacity for love and imagination.
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PTSD
Jiang applies PTSD to Odysseus' postwar shame, paralysis, and loss of capacity for love and imagination.
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Odysseus' core problem is interpreted as PTSD: violence and senseless death have shattered his soul after war.
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Odysseus' stillness, constant weeping, and fixation on the past are read as clear signs of depression and PTSD.
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Odysseus' PTSD appears as shame and avoidance: he is stuck with Calypso, crying on the beach, unable to go home because he cannot face his family.
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Jiang argues that trauma has cost Odysseus his ability to fight, imagine, and love, so his first need on returning is to know whether Penelope still loves him.
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"...home from the war, and his problem is that he has PTSD. Which is post -traumatic stress disorder, and this is very common for..."
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"They've seen so much violence, they've seen so much tragedy, they've seen so much senseless death, that their souls are shattered, and that is..."
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"The queenly nymph sought out the great Odysseus, the commands of Zeus still ringing in her ears, and found him there on the headland,..."
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"So, he's sitting, he's still, he's weeping, his eyes never dry, and all he's thinking about is the past. Okay? This is clear signs..."
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"In the night true, he'd sleep with her in the arching cave. He had no choice, unwilling lover alongside lover all too willing. But..."
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"...by what he sees. Okay? And this is what we call PTSD, right? Post Traumatic Stress Order. And after Troy, Odysseus becomes lost at..."
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"So they're just stuck there. Athena, who is the goddess of wisdom, okay, and she favors Odysseus. And she pities the family. And she..."
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"...Odysseus sought glory and fame in war, he became traumatized with PTSD. He saw the horrors of war where innocent people, innocent families were..."
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"...And this causes cognitive dissonance and this is what causes his PTSD, okay, or trauma. And so the Odyssey is his journey to repair..."
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