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Porn addiction is apparently one of the biggest problems of the internet age.
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They can't stop watching porn.
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Did the dirty eight times in one single day.
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Pornography addiction is one of the worst addictions in the world today.
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I don't think so.
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Or at least I think we're missing the point.
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If you look at the most popular search terms on The Hub, hentai has been dominating for almost 10 years now.
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Which, okay, weird, but probably doesn't mean anything.
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Until we break down the elements of hentai.
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Hyper exaggerated body parts, fantastical creatures, humans with animal parts, futanari,
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and of course, this is just ancient mythology on steroids.
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And it's not just hentai, it's good old regular porn too.
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Maybe I've been reading too much mythological interpretation or watching too much porn, but the similarities between the two are staggering.
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And trust me, once you see it, you will not be able to unsee it anymore.
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It was only when I saw adult content from this peculiar your angle
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that I understood really what's happening behind the scenes of this addiction.
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I'm here to say that mythology is alive and affects us more than we think.
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To make it even harder for myself, I won't even talk about hentai.
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Too easy.
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Rather, I will tackle the most infamous, oldest, vanilla adult content trope out there and its 3,000 year old mythological origin.
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And what it all says about the addictive ritual you do when you watch it.
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Before we begin, And as you can imagine, I will have to do my best to navigate around the terms associated with this topic to not get censored by YouTube,
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so bear with me when I formulate things in PG baby talk terms.
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Most of you are familiar with the infamous sub-genre of the stepmother, though I hope we all understand step is only there for legality.
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For our purposes, we can also include the figures of the stepsister and MILF in general.
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This setup is obviously an Oedipal mommy issue galore, right?
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No. If you're unfamiliar, the Oedipus story goes
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that he was born to a king and queen but was carried away at birth.
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However, he survived and when returning to his kingdom, he unknowingly killed his father, the king and upon return married his mother, the queen.
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However, when he realized what he'd done, he blinded himself.
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All normal things you do in life.
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As far as I'm concerned, the Freudian literal reading of the Oedipus myth is nonsense that misses the point of a much wiser mythological meaning.
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And herein lies the essence.
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Mythology is transpersonal.
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In other words, it doesn't focus on any specific object or person, but rather shapes and forms as such.
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Since mythology is obviously pre-scientific, it is narrative-driven because how else will you efficiently share it back then?
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and super abstract because it attempts the monumental task of depicting being itself.
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All of this makes it hard for us moderns to comprehend it.
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Yet, it would be wrong to assume
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that thousands of years of human history condensed into narrative form wouldn't have anything useful to say.
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So when Oedipus unknowingly murders his father and marries his mother then blinds himself,
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you can observe how almost every word in that summary is not literal.
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Rather, between the quotation marks are symbols which represents what it means to develop as a conscious human being.
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Now I'm not saying that adult content is that profound,
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but it quite brilliantly plays into these transpersonal symbols which is why so many young men are inescapably attracted to it.
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We have our roadmap with this summary
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and by decoding the words in quotations we will unravel the actual meaning of this genre.
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And it is only natural that we start with the father and mother.
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To unlock the meaning of despair, we must look at it psychologically.
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Our psyche is not only consciousness, that part which plants, wants and does.
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Consciousness is also enveloped like a nucleus in the unconscious, so everything beyond our awareness.
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Symbolically, consciousness rises like an island from the ocean of unconsciousness.
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Makes sense, right?
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And also note the power dynamic in this metaphor.
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Just like our bodies, consciousness develops and matures over time.
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Nobody will deny that what any adult is conscious of is no match for any 3 year old.
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So consciousness is like a tree that grows upwards despite gravity, or one might even say in opposition.
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That is because these two forces are naturally in constant tension.
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Just like electricity needs voltage, so potential difference, the same goes for the human psyche.
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You could say in this view, this me, this you and I is the electric charge between the conscious and the unconscious.
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Just like to be born, one needs a male and a female.
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Obviously, right?
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So, getting back to Oedipus, the symbol of the mother represents the unconscious, naturally.
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Where do we rise from?
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And the father represents consciousness, who separates us from the embrace of the mother.
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So when the hero of the explicit video is engaging with the stepmother, it is actually a consciousness facing the unconscious.
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Usually the fantasies portrayed involve being seduced by a feminine figure
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which has been represented in mythology for ages as the ultimate failure of the hero.
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In adult content, it's when the stepmother for one ridiculous reason
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or another takes care of the stepson or in normal stories like Finding Nemo it is being swallowed by the whale.
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This intuitively makes sense to us even though it's a drawing of a fish with a face inside a whale
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because our monumental human drive is to increase and expand our conscious powers.
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Think science.
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Or as Jung put it, to be the light shining in the dark.
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So when Oedipus unknowingly does what he does, that means his consciousness was still too weak he wasn't ready to become a hero,
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to become mature.
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And it's why usually the stepson is quite childish.
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The problem is that becoming mature or developing a consciousness that can withstand unconscious forces is the problem.
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Yet it is perfectly natural because contrary to what we might think, the unconscious is status quo.
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It is gravity itself.
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Defying it, flying a rocket to the moon, that's what's truly extraordinary.
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So an adolescent person is faced with many challenges along their
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way from being one with the mother to becoming one with the father, which is the narrative motif of many major religions.
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That is why Oedipus is a failed hero, because by murdering his father, he kills his consciousness, and by marrying his mother,
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he fails the challenges of maturation and gives into infantile unconscious dependency on others, which could be people or substances.
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The stepmother genre plays exactly into the symbolical universal temptation of adolescence.
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Yet we still have the blinding that Oedipus does once he becomes conscious of his failure.
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This blinding is in the same narrative lane as castration, which the Freudians were obsessed with and took literally, which again is wrong.
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To be passively castrated from without means symbolically to lose your consciousness and be swallowed up by either nature or culture.
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Here, feminine castration differs from masculine.
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Feminine castration is usually orgiastic, one loses their individuality to death or chaos.
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The equivalent group genre is probably obvious.
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Masculine castration, though, manifests itself through ascetism or impotence.
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One becomes detached from body and thus nature.
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Naturally, this type is rarely found in pornography except for the Quackle trope.
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The failed hero of that type of video is the one being held in submission by a dominant masculine figure.
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As Oedipus shows, the hero of the story does not necessarily have to be successful.
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Anyway, the crucial detail in the Oedipus story is that he does it to himself, which most of you probably feel is the most tragic and disturbing part of it,
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and not without reason.
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You see, we actually have the story backwards.
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The real tragedy of the story is only at the very end.
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That is because to develop as a person, you must murder your father and marry your mother.
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I know how backwards that sounds, which is why I said understanding mythology today is complicated.
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But what if we forget the father for a second and I just put it like this.
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To marry the mother symbols that the hero's task is to enter a creative union,
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marry, With their given destiny or with the random chaos of existence and master it.
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Sounds quite different, right?
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And while we're at it, to defeat the father symbols to not become a slave to conformity and to the mass but become a true individual.
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And again, in adult content, that is what's being portrayed when the stepson takes the stepmother from the father.
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The key is that Oedipus was active in doing so.
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The interpretation we'd had before would be right only if he was passive, so murdered by and married by.
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Oedipus is a failed hero because he unknowingly did the journey, which is funnily represented in adult content when the women switched unbeknown to the guy.
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Anyway, once Oedipus realized what he'd done, he was so shocked that he willingly sacrificed his consciousness, his eyes and regressed to infantility.
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This is the symbolical meaning behind the infamous warning to not touch yourself or you will go blind.
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It warns us to not fall prey to our unconscious desires, but of course, when taken literally, loses all its meaning.
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The connection is there because the body is naturally associated with the unconscious.
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It is out of our conscious control, at least for the most part.
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And imagine before medicine and physical science.
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The body is a strange thing that just dies randomly, right?
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You get it.
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Anyway, pornography is much more obsessed with the passive regression into oblivion of individuality, hence the inescapable objectification of the actors.
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Again, since adult content is so close to mythology, just like with its characters, the actors are also playing a transpersonal role.
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They're not there to be human-relatable characters of a novel, let's say, but rather the vessels,
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bodies that hold these archetypal ideas just like dragons, whales or giants do.
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They're there to embody the categories.
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And needless to say, this can get out of hand just as the rituals of ancient tribes did,
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which today we find so impersonal and atrociously grotesque with our increasing individuality.
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So now that we get the story of Oedipus and have a framework for mythological symbols, it might seem that indeed, adult content is pretty grim and infantile obsessed,
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which A lot of it is, but we know already that a lot depends on whether the hero in the video is active or passive.
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By understanding this dynamic, we will now fully unravel the meaning of what you do while watching it.
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I think pornography's forefront symbol should be the Euroboros, a serpent eating its own tail, life and death at once.
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It stands for the ultimate unconscious, so for that which can never be known.
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Euroboros is a paradisal unconscious state of non-differentiation, so infancy, death, sleep, etc. Now,
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we already figured out that one should emancipate from the Euroboros and, by slaying the dragon, become mature.
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But remember, the unconscious is like gravity, so it is natural to long and fall for that paradisal feeling of non-conscious existence.
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Adult content hits the nail exactly on this fantasy and serves as a, hopefully, temporary relief from developing as an individual.
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Especially in the group genre, the Euroboros manifests most prominently, because each person participating loses themselves and becomes one,
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though only in body, with everyone else.
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Becoming one spiritually is also a very powerful mythological trope or symbolism.
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So, the Euroboros is individual-less.
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And very similar group ecstasies happened openly throughout ancient tribal rituals until they became increasingly taboo
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and eventually only done behind closed doors.
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Yet, the Eurobarus is a paradoxical symbol because it comes from an undifferentiated psychology,
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which means that it is not only death but also life at the same time.
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Thus this symbol also represents creativity, the self-generative nature of humans.
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Fascinatingly, this self-generation is symbolically associated with creative masturbation.
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It expresses the autonomy of an individual who gives birth to themselves.
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See, the development of autonomy is just as crucial of a development task as adaptation,
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so in that sense, Eurobarus suddenly becomes a symbol of individuality.
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Again, it is dualistic in nature.
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So, on one hand, detachment from it, entry into the world and encounter with the opposites are essential tasks of development.
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But on the other hand, an equally legitimate development task is self-related, to become the center of your own life.
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In this sense, when you're doing what you're doing while watching adult content, you're engaging in a symbolic ritual of differentiation.
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In other words, by ritual sacrifice, by what happens at the end, you are trying to manifest strength towards self-realization and autonomy.
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The more a person is addicted to this behavior, the more that person wants and needs this independence yet is unable to achieve it.
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It is not without reason that consuming adult content is so closely correlated with adolescence.
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So if you're doing your ritual all day long uncontrollably, it is not that you need to go cold turkey as with some addiction.
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Rather, you need to step out into the world and face the opposites.
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And I'll bet you the ritual will slowly lose its grip.
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But remember I mentioned that whether the hero in the videos is passive or active means a lot.
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is active, the content usually then portrays the overcoming of the unconscious, which is symbolized by the feminine figure in the video.
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Psychologically, this probably means that your unconscious is trying to manifest what it lacks and you should just follow its hints.
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However, the tricky part is that emancipation begins with a negative act of destruction.
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Determinatio est negatio, to discriminate,
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distinguish and isolate oneself from the surrounding context are all marks of a consciousness why experimentation is the scientific principle.
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With it, a natural connection is broken and analyzed in isolation.
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So, the symbolic fight with the dragon Euroborus is
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when the person adopts its destructive attitude and directs it against it and not themselves, which Oedipus failed to do.
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Unfortunately, the deflation of the unconscious is closely connected to depreciation of the female, which is obvious in many religions.
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But the same goes for adult content.
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When it gets out of hand with this symbolic obsession of defeating the unconscious, the content gets strong fast.
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It is one thing if the content depicts someone actively winning the opposite sex.
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I use that word since it's a fantasy, no one wins anyone in real life.
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But it is completely another thing if it depicts a ridiculous domination of the opposite.
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On the other hand though, if the narratives you're attracted to are passive, so where the guy gets lucky without doing anything,
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then most likely your consciousness desires to give in to regression and become overpowered by the unconscious.
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This can become a problem and eventually, one can end up a kumer.
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Horrible joke.
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I'm sorry.
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My main point with this video is that in those rarer cases
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when the content depicts the successful overcoming of the fear of the feminine, which is one of the main tasks of adolescence,
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it is simply doing the job of mythology which we have brushed under the carpet.
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Yes, pornography can be a problem, but the bigger issue is that we're getting disorientated by our lack of a cultural compass,
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which allows such places as The Hub to get so many young men addicted.
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Young men just need some mythology, that's all.
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このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント
このC1レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「Why Pornography Is Basically Modern Mythology」を教材にしています。 繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです：unconscious, content, Oedipus, consciousness, adult。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が185文、単語が2647語あります。 音声の長さは16:23です。 話す速さは1分あたり約162語で、日常会話に近い自然なペースです。 英語の頻出3,000語に含まれる単語は79%だけなので、語彙は難しめです。
この動画の重要語彙
動画の中で特に難しい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。
| 単語 | 発音 | 意味 |
|---|---|---|
| unconscious 形容詞 | /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəs/ | 無意識 |
| mythology 名詞 | /mɪˈθɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ | 神話 |
| ritual 名詞 | /ˈɹɪt͡ʃ.u.əl/ | 儀式, 祭祀 |
| stepmother 名詞 | /ˈstɛpmʌðə/ | 継母 |
| feminine 形容詞 | /ˈfɛmɪnɪn/ | 女らしい, 女性らしい |
| passive 形容詞 | /ˈpæs.ɪv/ | 受動態 |
| castration 名詞 | /kæˈstɹeɪ.ʃən/ | 去勢, 宮刑 |
| individuality 名詞 | /ˌɪndɪvɪd͡ʒuˈælɪti/ | 個性 |
| pornography 名詞 | /pɔɹˈnɑ.ɡɹə.fi/ | ポルノグラフィ, ポルノ |
| manifest 名詞 | /ˈmæn.ɪ.fɛst/ | 積荷目録 |
| adolescence 名詞 | /ˌædəˈlɛsəns/ | 青年期 |
| depict 動詞 | /dɪˈpɪkt/ | 描く |
| obsess 動詞 | /əbˈsɛs/ | 取り付く |
| stepson 名詞 | /ˈstɛpsʌn/ | 継息子 |
| trope 名詞 | /tɹoʊp/ | 転義法, お約束 |
この動画の文法
話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。
| 文型 | 動画での表現 |
|---|---|
| 現在完了進行形 have/has been + -ing — 以前に始まり今も続いている動作 | has been dominating · I've been reading |
| 受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てる | was born · is also enveloped · be born |
| 関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える | symbols which is · father, which is · sounds, which is |
| 現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している | has been represented · have brushed |
注意したい発音
話し手はyou're, I'm, we'reなど、短縮形や弱形を27回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。
- 「th」の音: mythology /mɪˈθɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, mythological /ˌmɪθəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/, stepmother /ˈstɛpmʌðə/, withstand /wɪðˈstænd/, myth /mɪθ/
- 「sh」と「zh」の音: unconscious /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəs/, castration /kæˈstɹeɪ.ʃən/, differentiation /dɪf.əˌɹɛn.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/, regression /ɹiːˈɡɹɛʃ.ən/, domination /ˌdɑːməˈneɪʃən/
- 長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: mythology /mɪˈθɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, mythological /ˌmɪθəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/, individuality /ˌɪndɪvɪd͡ʒuˈælɪti/, unknowingly /ʌnˈnəʊ.ɪŋ.li/, pornography /pɔɹˈnɑ.ɡɹə.fi/
日本語話者が苦手な音：
- /r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: ritual /ˈɹɪt͡ʃ.u.əl/, paradisal /paɹəˈdʌɪs(ə)l/, unravel /ˌʌnˈɹævəl/, literal /ˈlɪt(ə)ɹəl/, similarity /ˌsɪm.ɪˈlæɹ.ɪ.ti/
- /v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: passive /ˈpæs.ɪv/, individuality /ˌɪndɪvɪd͡ʒuˈælɪti/, unravel /ˌʌnˈɹævəl/, addictive /əˈdɪktɪv/, navigate /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/
- /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: feminine /ˈfɛmɪnɪn/, pornography /pɔɹˈnɑ.ɡɹə.fi/, manifest /ˈmæn.ɪ.fɛst/, infamous /ˈɪn.fə.məs/, differentiation /dɪf.əˌɹɛn.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/
この動画での練習方法
- まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
- まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
- 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。unconscious, mythology, ritualなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。
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