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One student answers that rejected possessive love ends with the beloved being condemned, aligning the scenario with Virgil putting a woman into hell.
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Rejection
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The class gradually isolates the mechanism beneath anger: Virgilian possessive love expects return praise, so refusal wounds the lover's vanity and turns into hostility.
diagnosis
The logic of this bad love is that rejection intensifies pursuit rather than correcting desire, because the lover treats refusal as a problem to overpower.
definition
For Jiang, cognitive dissonance is not just feeling uncomfortable about conflicting evidence but actively rejecting or suppressing it so one's worldview does not shatter.
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"Put her in hell. Well, yeah, that's what he does ultimately."
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"Um, he'll get mad at, and he'll make like negative comments on like, oh, you're not that good either. Whatever."
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"Come on. Hello. Bower flowers. Hello. Bower chocolates. Hello, How about buy her a diamond ring? How about buy her a Mercedes? How about..."
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"what's kind of dissonance quality so you hold on to your own worldview because you you can't let it"
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"shatter you it's too much to you all right you guys understand so uh yeah did you want to add"
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"to that yes so when you hear something that someone else else says that is different to your own perception of the world view..."
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"you don't feel it no no you don't feel uncomfortable what do you do you reject it you understand okay so what's happened is..."
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"...what Virgil says. Okay? So again, the divine comedy is a rejection of Virgil, but is also born of Virgil. Okay? It's like the..."
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"...a divine order. And in that sense, homosexuality, homosexuality is a rejection of the female appeal and also the order of love on the,..."
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"...are seeing, and it's not just unique to Jews, but a rejection of existence itself, that we have a kind of deep hatred of..."
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