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Hello, everyone.
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My name is Amanda and I am a new three
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or two student just like you.
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So I'd like to begin just with a quick disclaimer
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that I have to be recording this all in one
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shot Because, um, my previous methods of tech savvy editing
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over a presentation voiceover visual thing, what's not working?
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So I figured this would be the most direct way
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to get my point across.
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It's a little bit Ala Anderson in the discourse.
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Of course, I I can only hope to be as
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smooth and delivering all of these concepts and accurately, uh,
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and interestingly, I suppose, Anyway, I digressed.
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So today we're gonna be talking about dreams.
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This I'm very excited because, of course, while there is
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a whole bunch of subjective interpretations that could be made,
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there's a lot of cultural relevance that goes through our
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own interpretations of dreams.
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Here I have a dream catcher, which is said Thio,
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woven and made specifically to catch bad dreams that they
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don't perturb your unconsciousness while you're in the vulnerable state
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of sleeping.
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Eso dreams play a significant part in how we view
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ourselves, um, even across cultures.
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So to begin I thought I would just share a
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quick dream that I think we all have in common
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and that sort of part of our collective unconscious, which
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is the dream to graduate to graduate university.
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I think it's something that we all share, and it's
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indicative of the fact that dreams are often fantasies that
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want to be fulfilled.
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Wish fulfillment.
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We we dream of achieving this, and we want our
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dreams to come true, etcetera.
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But that's clearly not all that it means to have
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a dream.
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Having dreams can also be things that we're not aware
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of that there.
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Ah, little bit elusive that we don't quite remember.
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It may seem foggy.
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It may seem detached women and understand at all why
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we dream what we dream on.
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It may come from out of the blue, but with
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a little bit of young and analysis, we could actually
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lean further insights into the things that we dream about.
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I hope I'm coming across clear and concise, and if
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not, you know what, I'll just re upload this thing.
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It's all good in the hood, so I want to
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also share a little bit, anecdotally something that I've noticed
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Over the past couple of weeks, I've had some re
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occurring dreams involving my ex boyfriend.
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I haven't seen this person for two years, but yet
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for a few nights in a row, no matter what,
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I would have a dream involving coming across this person
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and having an interaction with them.
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And I found that to be very strange, and I
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was giving it some thought.
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And after a little bit of reflection, I think I've
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come to the conclusion as to why I have been
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having this person in my dreams, and I will share
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that a little bit later.
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But first I want to just go over a few
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archetypes that I think are relevant for our discussion into
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Theoneste Lis of Dreams so quickly.
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Of course, we should be familiar with the persona, which
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is the mask that we wear when we interact with
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other people.
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It's who we think others want us to be, how
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we want others to see us, how we want to
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be perceived, who we think we should be.
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It's sort of interchangeable, depending on who you speak.
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Thio and most people, according to Young, um, interact with
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the world from this place of having a persona and
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having a mask.
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Um, it's pretty commonly known that it's difficult to be
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vulnerable with.
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Others were afraid of being judged, were afraid of being
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rejected. So ah, per certain persona is conceivably a very
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good way in which we mask those sort of soft
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bits, the tender white underbelly of our personalities, by putting
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an exterior of something that is, um, acceptable and kind
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of vanilla easy to it, easy to digest by whomever
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the group is that you're trying to belong.
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So moving on a little bit less, um, forthcoming is
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the anima, or animus.
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It's simply refers to the opposing sexual or gender force
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that an individual has that came across very worthy and
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more convoluted than it meant to be.
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But for the female, the animus is the male counterpart
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of their personality, which is said to influence their way
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of thinking.
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Um, and the anima is the female part of a
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male. The female counterpart.
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Uh, it's said to have biological roots because the genetic
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materials for the female, which is the lesser part of
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who the male becomes an and vice versa.
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Hold on, let me try that again?
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Um, sure, the genetic factors that make me female obviously
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a predominant, because I am female.
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But there's still male genes within me.
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And that case is also true for for males who
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have predominantly male genes but also who have the feminine.
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That's the way that it was described.
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I'm trying to describe it in the way that I
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read it in the young in texts that I read,
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Um, like the essential young eso I thought that was
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interesting that they he seemed to say that the that
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the anima animus was actually kind of founded or was
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a consequence of biology as opposed to nearly psychological or
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sociological genetic factors.
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You have to part in my study, um, but anyway,
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this plays a very vital role because it shows how
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we truly begin to compartmentalize the self other parts of
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ourselves that are perhaps less desirable as the identity that
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we want to perceive that gets in the way of
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the persona that we have to put may go further
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and further into the background and air Go.
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Now we have the shadow, the parts of ourselves that
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are not gendered unnecessarily, but that we are ashamed of
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that. We perceive as weaknesses that we don't want to
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have coming to the surface because they're threatening to our
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sense of self to our ego.
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Um, and so they're typically outside of conscious awareness, even
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though it clearly has, Ah, strong, unconscious influence on our
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behavior and our ways of feeling etcetera decisions.
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After that, we have the self someone, young argued that
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the self has to be achieved.
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It has to be earned through effort.
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You don't just come into this world with a personality.
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You have to actually forge it yourself from doing the
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work. Someone who is aware of both their conscious and
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unconscious Selves can be said to have a self because
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they've done the analysis to the point where they're breaking
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parts, the illusions and the projections that the unconscious will
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place. And someone with that level of awareness can truly
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be said to be an individual because they have knowledge
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of self.
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Mm. So moving on, I want to apply these quickly
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to a wonderful example of Mar Winkle of a survivor
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of a traumatic attack who became a brain injured individual
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in an attempt to piece together himself in his life
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after the injury, when he had to sort of learned
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to be a person again.
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All of these elements of who he Waas suddenly became
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to manifest through his artwork through his creations of this
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Externalizing and personification of who of the elements of himself.
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To be more specific.
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This is kind of the process of amplification.
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It's the elaboration and clarification of these dream like images.
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So rather than just perceiving, having friends or having these
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things sort of blooming, he truly went through the efforts
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in the painstaking efforts to actualize these thoughts.
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These dreams, these feelings, these memories to reclaim his life
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and reclaim his identity.
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That could be seen here in this photo where he's
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adjusting. Ah, seen that he's making of two female characters
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in the midst of ah scene, you can see the
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painstaking details, the complete and utter immersion that this person
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has put into there personified world of their own lives.
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It's their own town, their own community, where their fantasies
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can come to life, such as with this next next
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example of his persona getting married within the town to
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the woman that he his persona is in love with
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you can see the other characters hanging in the background,
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and it just goes to show that this shadow has
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its place here.
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As part of the artists piece, there is war, and
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there is death and destruction.
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Actually, his wife saves his character from being kidnapped and
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tortured, and it's actually this story where anger and pain
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could be expressed in a safe and constructive way, and
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these meaningful connections and bonds actually create lasting attachments.
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It has a meaningful impact to him, and this is
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where the line between fantasy and dream becomes blurred with
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reality. Because the our protagonist even says that when he
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goes to bed, the last thing that his I see
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are his female dolls next to his bed because he
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loves them so much, he takes good care of them.
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Happy dolls, Happy life.
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He tucks them in carefully.
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He truly loves and cares for these characters as though
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they were riel.
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So the line there is a little bit blurred between
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what is dream and what is reality for this individual
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when this fantasy, when these internal things become manifested personified
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in real life, Another example we have is actually from
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the Black Swan.
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I had a clip of the opening sequence, but I'm
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unable to show it in this format.
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But I think you all know she has a dream
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where she's dancing.
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And then she dances with the prince and suddenly becomes
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this monstrous.
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Blacks want Creature, and although she's afraid, she keeps dancing
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and she overcomes it, fluttering away into the spotlight.
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Then she awakens in.
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The story begins.
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I thought this opening sequence was particularly powerful because it
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was a foreshadowing of her, overcoming her own animus.
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Her own negative masculine negative is not the right word.
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Irrational is the word that's used in the young in
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text. But this male counterpart that she, the actual character,
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was not allowed tohave in her life or in her
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childhood. It showed her relationship with her mother meant that
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she had to be a sort of a perfect little
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girl. She had to reject this other part of herself.
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This animus, this this masculine, this own individual who wanted
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to be its own person in order to be this
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perfect little girl role to ensure the safety of our
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households, and I suppose, ultimately her own safety as well