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How to keep a college discussion going.
· Ask interesting questions (without easy answers)
· Listen carefully to others
· Respond thoughtfully and in depth
· Explore various topics and expand on them
· Collaborate with others
· Come back to the text often (read aloud a line you’ve underlined)
· Qualify a statement (“that’s generally true, but in the case of. . .)
· Tolerate awkward moments of silence
Ideas from our discussion of Ross Murfin:· Should we psychoanalyze fiction? How’s it different?
· Our subconscious remembers childhood events and people, and later you dislike someone but don’t know why: that’s your subconscious affecting current decisions and preferences. Later you try to rationalize it, but that’s not the real reason. (Our emotional brains decide before we do, then we try to justify the answer.)
· Your first instinct on multiple-choice is right, then you think with your conscious mind and change the answer.
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· Essentially, humanity is self-repressed and subconsciously desires the freedom of the wild, but such a freedom may have catastrophic results, as demonstrated by Kurt'z excursion. (Beni’s blog)
· It is like a never ending cycle, where after one civilization has been repressed, like England, that civilization will then try to revise or repress another civilization to be just like them, like Africa. In the Heart of Darkness this cycle is successfully being exemplified because the Africans are truly being repressed, as seen by the English as a lesser country, the English feel it is their duty to "save" the Africans. (Kevin’s blog)
· In this statement, the fact that every civilized being was once repressed. In Heart of Darkness, the Africans are obviously being repressed by the English however, a Jungian interpretation would suggest that in order for the Africans to become civilized, they would have to be repressed. Heart of Darkness shows the Africans going through the repression. (Anthony T’s blog)
