The psychological turn from collective consciousness and community toward the belief that individual happiness can be pursued alone.
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self-focus
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For Jiang, the key evidence of Virgil's emotional shift is that he forgets to mention Dante and the guiding mission and instead narrates only his own passage and dignity.
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"...he said i came up through the yes he becomes a focus all of his attention right"
"...me me okay again that's if you're really ecstatic you just focus on yourself right what else and again this this is different from..."
"...with the coming of Freud and psychology we now shift our focus to ourselves."
"So we come to believe that for our own eternal struggle we can be happy. Others don't matter. We ourselves if we're happy we're..."
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
Marx is powerful because he sees what capitalism does to the soul.
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