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He says both 'we are within God' and 'God is within us' are simultaneously true, which is why two-dimensional diagrams are inadequate.
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Jiang uses the Star Wars father scene as an analogy for discovering oneself in the father one must symbolically overcome.
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Jiang accepts the student's account of art-viewing as an oscillation among viewer, artist, subject, and object, calling it a dialogue or simulation that tries to bring self and painting together.
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A student argues that Dante replaces fear of damnation with a humanistic fear of consequences: misactions also matter, so responsibility shifts back from the devil to the self.
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Jiang returns to Bakunin: inward self-analysis is navel-gazing, while meaning, purpose, love, and freedom are found in each other.
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Hatred of another person separates the hater from the Monad and becomes self-hatred.
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Jung systematizes Freud by distinguishing ego, personal unconscious, collective unconscious, animus/anima, persona, shadow, and self.
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Jiang reads Picasso's cubist portrait as visually representing Jung's theory of the divided self.
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"connections yeah okay so the idea is that god is with is within us and we are within god does that make sense that's..."
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"is within us when you and we are the universe when you draw you would collapse it into two"
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"dimension which is which is not yeah also you need to send the fractals right fractal so you are just a fractal of the..."
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"Okay. Yes. Anyone else? Yes. I think in the moment when you have to kill your father as a man or whatever the case..."
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"Yeah. Have you guys watched Star Wars? Right. You, I know you've watched Star Wars, but you remember the scene where, um, is it,..."
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"Yes? I usually try to dissolve myself, a kind of disassociation in order to assimilate within the painting, trying to forget yourself, trying to..."
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"Okay, that's a really interesting comment, okay? But I want you to break it down for us and try to literally explain what's going..."
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"So it's like constantly trying to ebb and flow between doing what being the viewer and being the artist, being the subject and being..."
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"Right, okay, so it's a dialogue, right? A dialogue assimilation, okay, yeah. Simulation, right? Would it be fair to say that when you do..."
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"I think it's also important to remember that this is a two -sided coin. Like, on one hand, your actions matter, and you can..."
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"of all this is, as Buchanan tells us, it's all self -directed inwards, which gets us nowhere, okay? It's just you looking into yourself...."
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", right but at the same time you went to prison right you've been punished already so justice has been served so you cannot..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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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.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Jesus lecture: Christianity begins as a pile of impossible doctrines, the historical Jesus is thinner and stranger, the Gospel of Thomas makes him a poet-prophet of the divine spark,...
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Freud is not introduced as a neutral founder of psychology.
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Marx is powerful because he sees what capitalism does to the soul.
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