Glossary
Modern literary technique Jiang criticizes as undisciplined mental wandering produced by spiritual disconnection.
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stream of consciousness
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...um a woman talking to herself it's what we call stream of consciousness there were the eternal problems suffering death the poor there was..."
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Glossary
Modernist writing that tries to capture the mind as it thinks and works, linked here to Freud and the unconscious.
diagnosis
When people stop believing in the spiritual and disconnect from the right hemisphere, their minds fill with insignificant concerns and lose meaning.
diagnosis
Modern literature is described as a break from Homeric democratic truth-seeking into an elite, arrogant club organized around self-referential stream of consciousness.
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"...um a woman talking to herself it's what we call stream of consciousness there were the eternal problems suffering death the poor there was..."
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"...of her ideas okay and this is what we call stream of consciousness and it's the way we think today okay the reality is..."
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"now and as such we live meaningless insignificant lives and as such our brains are just focused on things that don't matter okay and..."
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"...the bigger story here? And it's used in something called stream of consciousness writing, which is it's trying to capture the mind as it..."
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"...really how our minds work. So this captures really well stream of consciousness thinking. Okay. And she's heavily influenced by Freud. Right? She's trying..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...
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Freud is not introduced as a neutral founder of psychology.
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