worldview

The socially operative map built by memory that situates a person in relation to others.

Jiang uses worldview for the larger emotional-intellectual frame that art can disrupt and then reorder.

The inner interpretive structure that, once organized around helplessness, blocks the person from reclaiming agency by sheer willpower.

The modern psychological name Jiang gives to the soul: a person's sense of identity, origin, place in the universe, and basis for action.

He claims that the ordering of emotional categories generates worldview and identity, which then feeds back into perception and recall.

Jiang affirms that memory naturally privileges what carries emotional value, while brute memorization is needed to retain disconnected facts.

He says the point of memory is not stockpiling neutral information but developing a worldview.

For Jiang, worldview matters because it tells a person their place in society, their relation to others, and how to navigate social life.

Jiang says people revise worldview to justify past action rather than simply admit they were wrong, and he applies this to Virgil's imperial poem and self-justification.

Jiang uses the experiment rhetorically to argue that modern prejudices about how the world works prematurely close the mind to interesting possibilities.

Jiang treats his intellectual divergence from Bromwich as positive, saying real mentorship does not require identical worldviews.

Jiang says Virgil behaves like a lawyer exploiting a loophole because he does not want to reflect on what the contradiction really means and instead wants to maintain his worldview.