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Used psychologically: catastrophe wounds most deeply when the sufferer internalizes blame.
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trauma
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Glossary
Used by Jiang for a state in which self-protection overwhelms reason after a social rule breaks.
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In response to Jiang's speculation about visions or trauma, Bromwich says Shakespeare is a particularly hard case for life-explains-work narratives, because the surviving biography does not display one exceptional formative wound or visionary episode.
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Jiang says Virgil's meeting with Cato was so traumatic that Virgil effectively blocks it from memory, which reveals both his motives and the structure of his self-deception.
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Jiang says the deepest comfort of preordination is learning that exile is not your fault, which removes the core source of trauma.
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Jiang compares Dante's release from blame to children traumatized by divorce, arguing that the wound depends on believing the catastrophe was your fault.
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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.
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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.
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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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"Sorry, so to expand the question, in this class, we speculate on weird things, right? So we discuss, is it possible that Don had..."
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"...of the germinal incident or the terrible, near -death experience or trauma that I think lies behind, you know, all the interesting productions that..."
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"you don't feel it no no you don't feel uncomfortable what do you do you reject it you understand okay so what's happened is..."
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"right exactly okay so that's what this this is really interesting what's happening right where virgil goes to purgatory for the first time meets..."
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"Okay. All right. Okay. Let's be clear. Okay? Dante is writing this not to console himself. Okay? But to give us hope. Does that..."
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"I don't want to be my friend. I was socially awkward, so I couldn't date. And I was, you know, the small Chinese kid..."
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"...a very sensitive child. So the stress. The chronic stress. The trauma really inhibited my learning, and I was a terrible student through primary..."
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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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"...Towers and the Twin Towers coming down. It was to induce trauma. You do that through spectacle, through real life spectacle, right? And so..."
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"...sort of passively accepted it. And, you know, that that's what trauma victims do. Like, like, they accept the world around them because they..."
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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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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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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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Jiang's education argument begins with a narrow definition and ends with a democratic dream.
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The Odyssey ends by making love more important than empire, fame, and heroic death.
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The host begins by asking who Jiang is and what Predictive History means.
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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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