Glossary
Used by Jiang for a state in which self-protection overwhelms reason after a social rule breaks.
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Trauma
Used by Jiang for a state in which self-protection overwhelms reason after a social rule breaks.
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Jiang divides human consciousness into mind, spirit, and soul; happiness comes when the three correspond, while disunity produces cognitive dissonance, trauma, and depression.
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Trauma splinters the worldview by making a painful identity-forming experience impossible to see or remember, which produces depression as an inability to act and think.
diagnosis
Odysseus' tears during the bard's song show that memory stores pain in him and that something in the Trojan War made him resent himself and rupture his soul.
definition
Jiang calls this forced perspective-switching the big bang of civilization because it violently assaults prejudice and opens access to the whole universe.
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Only through trauma, pain, and suffering can one access empathy and wisdom; spending a life with the Iliad can give a person a universe in the soul.
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The Etiology of Hysteria is presented as early Freud's strong scientific claim that sexual trauma is pathogenic and more common in respected families than people suspected.
diagnosis
Jiang emphasizes that early Freud believed patients and treated their symptoms as evidence of real experiences rather than fantasies.
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Freud's argument for patient credibility includes uniform details, naive reporting of significant events, and dissociated affect around shocking material.
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"move together back to the monad and with the monad our love is imprinted and this love becomes a force unto itself that compels..."
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"...this creates the idea of cognitive dissonance and this leads to trauma and depression and that's the issue that Odysseus, Penelope and Te насколько..."
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"Does that make sense? Right now, these three different planes believe different things. There's a different narrative. And they must combine this narrative into..."
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"...are. Now, in psychology, what they will teach you is that trauma splinters the world view, okay? There's something about your experience that"
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"...what's happening to Odysseus, Penelope, and Timarchus, all right? There's a trauma in their lives, okay? And they just believe this as well, okay?"
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"How once at the gods' flowing feast, the captains clashed in the savage war of wards, while Agamemnon, lord of armies, rejoiced at heart..."
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"bard would start again, impelled to sing by the oracle of Zeus, the oracle of Odysseus' lords, who reveled in his tale, again Odysseus..."
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"...But instead he cries and he cries, okay? This again is trauma, where the memories are storing pain in him. So clearly something happened..."
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"city will be sacked, your husband will be killed, your children will be murdered, and you'll be put on a ship to be enslaved..."
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"Does that make sense? Only through trauma, only through pain, only through suffering can you access empathy and wisdom, and that's a great truth..."
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"Iliad, any questions? Ask a question, guys, come on. Do you guys understand this? Does it make sense to you? We're gonna ask a..."
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"And then the woman would say, because when I was younger, when I was a little girl, my father raped me. Okay? Incest. That's..."
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The Odyssey ends by making love more important than empire, fame, and heroic death.
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The Iliad begins as a war of wills and ends as a metaphysics of love: memory is emotion, poetry is consciousness in motion, forgiveness defeats revenge, and forced perspective-switching becomes the big bang of...
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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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