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Agamemnon's failed attempt to rally soldiers by telling them they can go home.
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reverse psychology
Agamemnon's failed attempt to rally soldiers by telling them they can go home.
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Glossary
Jiang's analogy for Achilles telling Patroclus not to seek too much glory, thereby making Patroclus likely to do exactly that.
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diagnosis
Agamemnon's reverse-psychology test fails because his soldiers do not want glory; they are homesick, tired of the war, and do not know why they are fighting.
diagnosis
Achilles' warning to Patroclus functions like reverse psychology: by forbidding too much glory, he helps produce the glory-seeking action that gets Patroclus killed.
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"...what I'll do. I'll tell them they can go home. Ha. Reverse psychology, guys, right? Reverse psychology. Because when I say, you guys can..."
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"Okay? Does that make sense, guys? That's what the Odyssey is about. Okay. So what we're going to do now is we are going..."
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"recognize that Agamemnon's just being stupid and he will force all the Greeks to return back to their post. Okay? All right. Testing his..."
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"Okay. So this just shows you how stupid Agamemnon is because Agamemnon thinks that his soldiers actually want to fight this war, but all..."
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"...kiss him. So, what does Gilles do? Right? So, this is reverse psychology. Right? Okay? So, Gilles knows that if she says this, Jane's..."
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"...this is happening. And he knows it. All right. So, the psychology here is just so insightful, so deep, so striking. So let's use..."
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