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Jiang identifies Odysseus' traumatic recognition: he killed a husband and watched the widow's suffering, seeing Penelope in the woman he helped destroy.
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Recognition
The object given to another person becomes, in Jiang's reading, a way for the maker to see his impact in another person's world.
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The object given to another person becomes, in Jiang's reading, a way for the maker to see his impact in another person's world.
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Jiang contrasts Marx's object-reflection model with Bakunin's interpersonal reflection: freedom is confirmed by other free people, not by products.
normative
Real freedom and happiness, Jiang says, come from being recognized by free others and from caring, kindness, cooperation, sacrifice, family, purpose, and control of emotions.
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The brooch lets Penelope recognize Odysseus because it is an intimate object only he would remember in detail.
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"Okay, so now we know what happened, okay? Alright, so what happened was this. For ten years, Odysseus and the Greeks were trying to..."
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"And Odysseus is traumatized by this woman being traumatized because he came to Troy to save the woman, right? He sees Penelope in this..."
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"In your enjoyment or use of my product, I would have had the direct enjoyment of realizing that by my work, I had both..."
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"Then I give this vase to a friend, and I see this vase at my friend's home, right? He puts flowers, and he's very..."
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"I would have been for you the mediator between you and the species, and thus between—and thus been felt by you and acknowledged as..."
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"Okay, so this vase now shapes your reality, and I know that this vase has given you meaning, and it has shaped your reality,..."
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"...every individual around me, comes back to me strengthened by everyone's recognition."
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"So this is really important, okay? This may seem the same as Marx, but they're saying different things. Marx says, no, the object is..."
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"The freedom of every other individual does not limit my own, as the individualists claim. On the contrary, it is the confirmation, realization, and..."
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"...every individual around me, comes back to me strengthened by everyone's recognition. So what he's saying is this. If you want to be happy,..."
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"So he doesn't even know if his wife still loves him. So he meets with Penelope, okay? And again, he's still this guy. Penelope..."
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"How does she know? Because only Odysseus will know all the details of the brooch. What is the brooch? The brooch is what Penelope..."
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