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Re: What Everybody Gets Wrong About Jekyll and Hyde (2012)

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Post by philee » Tue, Oct 24, 2017, 7:24 AM UTC

popee wrote: post #20

adam-a wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Carl Jung was 11 when the book was published, so perhaps it's the other way around?

I didn't say that book is based on Jung, just that Hyde is maybe personification of Shadow archetype. What's your opinion, could that be true?

I would think so. A direct comparison has been written about in literature long after both the story/concept were introduced [1]:

'A man who is possessed by his shadow is always standing in his own light and falling into his own traps ... living below his own level': hence, in terms of the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 'it must be Jekyll, the conscious personality, who integrates the shadow ... and not vice versa. Otherwise the conscious becomes the slave of the autonomous shadow'.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_(psychology)

Re: What Everybody Gets Wrong About Jekyll and Hyde (2012)

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Post by d--b » Tue, Oct 24, 2017, 9:35 AM UTC

I always thought that the story was pretty much about getting drunk. It's basically "what if people could not recognize my face while I'm plastered?"

Re: What Everybody Gets Wrong About Jekyll and Hyde (2012)

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Post by zeratax » Wed, Oct 25, 2017, 9:45 AM UTC

deanCommie wrote: post #5

The 2010's version of this is a well-educated, well-raised, mild-mannered, socially-liberal, employed, tech-savvy millennial who starts on 4chan, moves on to /r/redpill and /r/mensrights, graduates to trolling and doxxing women on twitter, all for the LULZ. Eventually his freedom to "act as he can't in real life" leads to electing Donald Trump and a full on embracement of the alt-right agenda.

aka Sam Hyde

Re: What Everybody Gets Wrong About Jekyll and Hyde (2012)

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Post by deanCommie » Wed, Oct 25, 2017, 12:49 PM UTC

deadmetheny wrote: post #57

deanCommie wrote: post #5

The 2010's version of this is a well-educated, well-raised, mild-mannered, socially-liberal, employed, tech-savvy millennial who starts on 4chan, moves on to /r/redpill and /r/mensrights, graduates to trolling and doxxing women on twitter, all for the LULZ. Eventually his freedom to "act as he can't in real life" leads to electing Donald Trump and a full on embracement of the alt-right agenda.

>starts on 4chan, moves on to /r/redpill and /r/mensrights You have that in reverse. All of the worst subreddits of that nature are just Diet /pol/ at the end of the day.

Yes, but 4chan is so over the top you can at least pretend it's completely detached from reality (or at least you could until the 2016 Election).

I wouldn't be concerned about a teenager expressing some random hormonal rage on 4chan any more than I would be over their specific interest in video games/music/pornography.

/r/redpill and /r/mensrights are taking the same rage and turning it into practical philosophy - to analyze intellectually, discuss deeply, and put into application in real life.

That is much scarier, and much harder to fight.

Re: What Everybody Gets Wrong About Jekyll and Hyde (2012)

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Post by deanCommie » Wed, Oct 25, 2017, 12:49 PM UTC

taneq wrote: post #32

deanCommie wrote: post #5

The 2010's version of this is a well-educated, well-raised, mild-mannered, socially-liberal, employed, tech-savvy millennial who starts on 4chan, moves on to /r/redpill and /r/mensrights, graduates to trolling and doxxing women on twitter, all for the LULZ. Eventually his freedom to "act as he can't in real life" leads to electing Donald Trump and a full on embracement of the alt-right agenda.

Most of the doxxing I've read about recently has been sjw-led reddit witch hunts. >.>

Yes, and CNN is fake news huh?

And are there many excellent people "on both sides"?

Your follow up comment suggests you are now of the opinion that liberals and minorities are the racist ones. You're a lost cause.

Re: What Everybody Gets Wrong About Jekyll and Hyde (2012)

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Post by lostboys67 » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 11:41 AM UTC

dagw wrote: post #35

lostboys67 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you not read the book in it entirety first as home work or in the holiday before you are due to cover the book in class? I certainly read all of my assigned texts an din the case of classical studies several other books and plays in the cannon.

Why would you not read the book in it entirety first as home work or in the holiday before you are due to cover the book in class? Because they're teenagers with better things to do with their time than reading old 'boring' books by a bunch of pointless dead people.

ok so you get a U if you cant be arsed to put the work in why did you sign up for Eng Lit

Re: What Everybody Gets Wrong About Jekyll and Hyde (2012)

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Post by lostboys67 » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 11:43 AM UTC

Broken_Hippo wrote: post #44

lostboys67 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you not read the book in it entirety first as home work or in the holiday before you are due to cover the book in class? I certainly read all of my assigned texts an din the case of classical studies several other books and plays in the cannon.

Why would you not read the book in it entirety first as home work or in the holiday before you are due to cover the book in class? Because not everyone has that sort of luxury. Pre-college, I never had an actual syllubus detailing such things. Sometimes we'd get told we'd start a book every x weeks or something, but we never actually knew. Most common method of introducing books was to hand them out in class, giving…

Strange in the UK you knew up front what books where to be covered even more so now