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Psycho analysis makes more sense as we age and experience cycles of real life. Everything is a symbol that leads to universal themes or patterns. Depending on how, where, and when we are raised as humans, certain symbolism will repeat or have a stronger meaning at certain times of your life. These topics are not someone’s interpretation but personal experience or observations over decades of time in particular societies. What spoke to a group of people during the time the author writes about them should always be taken into consideration. Also it’s natural some things won’t make sense now but decades later they will because you lived the experience. These are massive teachings that take a lifetime to digest. Keep this in mind with Jungian analysis and legends like Joseph Campbell who worked with Jung. They are legendary for a reason. Go deep everyone ❤

great stuff - thanks so much for giving this overview - just what I needed as I write mainly female characters and had been feeling the hero's journey was not quite a right fit. I found your explainer because I have been studying Rey's (Star Wars) character arc and one thing led to another....

Awesome explanation of "index"! Taking college writing class, and it has not been stated clearly what it is or how it works. Thanks! 👏 👏 👏

10:37 Abundance paradoxically doesn't encourage equality. Areas with scarce resources give rise to egalitarian societies because having the cooperation of the group is more valuable than whatever you could get if you acted selfishly. A lot of the hunter-gather cultures that remain today live in places that are very difficult to live in, so you see this type of social structure arise there. The less you have to rely on others for survival the more independent you can be, and the more inequality arises between people with more or less ability to thrive in the environment they're in. Then those people who have more can offer surplus to others in exchange for doing their bidding to seize even more and oh look, you have an aristocracy. Communism is therefore incentivized to encourage or engineer scarcity, because it exerts development pressure toward equality and solidarity. The PRC did not immediately collapse after the devastating loss of life caused by the policies of The Great Leap Forward because it's a feature, not a bug. Not that I think they intentionally caused one of if not the worst famine in human history, rather that the conditions imposed by the famine reinforced their ideals. Another type of civilization would not have perpetuated itself when faced with the same pressure.

Hegel's father was a lutherian pastor. Marx grandfathers were rabbis. That's all you need to know about this (r-tarded) pseudo-religious cult.

This video can be useful for those crafting the midset of a villain who truly believes they are in the right.

I prefer Heraclitus & Nietzsche please. Beauty over equality… ok we can tolerate just one Diogenes as our token homeless masturbator for cynical measure 😂

This is a great video! You have a very clear and concise voice as a teacher, especially for such a small channel. Im a screenwriter and director, so maybe its just the screenwriting community, but I never hear people talk about writing this way, and as someone who has always built my stories from the world and the environment up, its incredibly refreshing to hear! Thank you!

It feels like this video is about a decade too late. It i not bad, and it got me to subscribe to your channel, but with the rise of metamodernism in recent years it feels like Hegel's modernism and Marx' postmodernism are models that the arts move away from.

Great video! Really interesting. You don't tend to see videos applying this level of theoretical depth to worldbuilding.

I wondered where WOKE writters got there ideas from. I fear the world is moving on from Woke, Feminism, etc., Obviously the word realism does not occur al lot. The artificial structures and ideas are being debunked day by day.

Good luck with the dissertation! I know too well how all-encompassing academia can be, and I ultimately got out of there for precisely the reason you described. I did not study Plato and Aristotle to then spend my days begging for grants! Fortunately, I found peace with a different career. Anyway, I've enjoyed watching a few of your older videos, so I'm interested to see how your recent experiences will shape your new content. All the best!

Pink Hair Alert! Collectivist Lunacy Ahead ....

Exellent idea for a video.

It's a nice video and an excellent topic. There is a lot of nuance to this and people devote lifetimes to studying Marx, Hegel, and their specific relationship. Covering a topic like this is ambitious and you open yourself up to a lot of critique. That said, here is mine: Firstly, you are talking about historicism (the 'directionality' and narrative of history), not historiography (the study of different writers' biases as caused by their temporal idiosyncrasies). It is not 'labour conditions' that Marx talks about but the mode of production specifically. The difference is crucial in that Marx's philosophy was not pure (vulgar) materialism, but _dialectical materialism_. He did not rule out the role that ideas and cultural movements impact history, he just holds that their source is the external, material reality. The mode of production is a lot deeper than labour conditions because it transforms consciousness itself. Marxism isn't as simple as 'cheap commodities allow you to do different things,' it's an exploration of how we see and relate to objects and people, as defined by the material wants and needs respective to them. Nature is absolutely central to Marx's work, for Marx nature is the root of all value, and therefore of consciousness. He writes about this extensively. Marx was not a determinist, for Marx humans had subjectivity. No Marxist philosopher would claim that cultures are predestined by the environment, rather that they have a _dialectical relationship_ i.e. conditions change culture which changes conditions etc.. Similarly, Hegelianism (or rather Hegelian historicism) cannot be reduced to 'people and ideas motivate history'. Hegel writes in a very obscure style, so it is difficult to summarise accurately what he intended, but in general he writes about people and ideas as _expressions of a world idea-spirit_, or a 'nation-spirit'. For Hegel, societies had subjectivities which can express themselves through institutions or individuals, but individual subjectivities or institutions do not motivate history (that would again be more of a vulgar materialist perspective). For an idealist, the fundamental reality is pure concepts - consciousness itself - not institutions. Again, I think this is a great video and you have a lot of cool ideas about worldbuilding. The conclusions you have come to are very understandable from and anglo-saxon humanist perspective, but Marx and Hegel specifically are not humanists and have a lot of depth and nuance. I think you are talking more about about materialism and idealism in general. Apologies if this comes across harshly! I like the video and hope you keep up the good work.

Great video! I want to add a comment and ask a question. Marx was one of the last system builders and it is instrumental to utilise historical materialism and dialectics in writing, particularly fiction. My question is amid worldbuilding, how do we craft interactions of the characters amongst themselves in that world. Are there any useful tools that can help us chart these interactions?

This was SOOO good. 😊 It helped to clarify a woman’s journey. I’m writing my 1st novel about four women and developing their arcs, which has been feeling super complicated. This information showed me that I’m on the right track, with some tweaks needed here and there. Thank you for pouring your time into communicating this to all of us. I’m so grateful!

Hello, please learn about Islam and read the Holy Qur’an. It is the best book I advise you to read in my entire life. Thank you.

YAAAYYY so glad you're back!

Welcome back! Happy to have discovered your channel. Subbed.

I am writing some novels and have noticed some differences between men and women, haha. I read Murdock’s Heroine’s Journey years (decades?) ago, but couldn’t assimilate it. Your fine analysis is bringing it back in a clearer light. I intend to go over your video several times.

Although Campbell had some brilliant ideas, he also had some stupid ideas, many that he got from Psychoanalysis. Statistically PA doesn’t work. In one study, housewives who just listened and said nothing at all got better results than psychoanalysts who interpreted. Having someone listening non-judgmentally helps you think. PA interpretation is BS, duh. Campbell also absorbed some sexist ideas from the male dominated culture. This is ironic because out-of-body experiences tend blow out that fixation on what sort of genitalia (or skin color) one has. He spoke a great deal about mysticism in ancient writings but had limited if any direct experience in that area. You just have to separate the wheat from the chaff.

I just read this book! Gave it 5 stars! The way you describe it and your observations are perfect. I also love that you identified heteronormative situation, the touch starvation, loneliness, etc. I am neurodivergent and have RSD, which seemed to be something Alessa experienced too and I related so deeply that I cried on a few occasions. Such a great read!

Thank you for your wonderful content ❤

Really looking forward to reading a couple of her books.great video

Great video. I was wondering what was the difference and could not find a satisying answer

This was hugely helpful and definitely the best break down of the heroine's journey for someone like me who has not read the book and wanted a comprehensive look into it. You've been immensely helpful and I really hope you find more subscribers and views for your work because it's wonderful! I'm currently thinking about writing an essay about Rey from the Star Wars sequels and how her arc is actually a Heroine's Journey and NOT exclusively a Hero's Journey as it seems a lot of people misread. A LOT of what you talk about in this matches with her arc pretty perfectly so I think my theory holds water here! Thank you so much!

Really great video thank you

Awesome video! Exactly what I need right now. This concept will work wonderfully with a character’s arc in a fantasy novel I’m working on (In the plotting phase, so timely). Thank you!

Good for you! One learns from meeting with an agent, you now have a feel for what could come next. Or not. Stay curious. Keep researching current trends. My query attempts failed, but the process was educational and beneficial. Oddly enough, even being turned down by literary agents, I was approached by a production company. Reality meets hope, it's not likely anything will come of that either. Go down your publishing path with certainty that you did all you good to give your work it's best chance at success., be it traditional or self-published. Best of luck to you

This was so interesting! I heard about the heroines journey on a short tiktok about the movie Frozen two haha, and it reminded me of a story idea brewing in my head. But this video was super accesible, and while I dont think the story I have follows it completely, I definitly want to use it to dig deeper into it. I haven't written a ton creatively before but I want to! Now I am going to watch some movies and try to find this journey within them haha!

Great!

Would love to watch a video on how semiotics have changed. And also, eastern vs western semiotics - especially the Indian use of semiotics. Thanks for the video! Very well explained. You are my first search result in my quest to learn what semiotics is.

I just finished this book and I LOVE it!! I cannot wait (I am praying for) a sequel!

I can't wait to read the book 😊

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I dont think this works as we have no idea what your novel is about so the advice means nothing to us.

There's laws against child pornography for a reason and I think that once depictions graphic sex in Y.A becomes prevalent this kind of creates a moral dilemma of where the f**k do we cross the line between this s**t and child pornography?

I am so excited for this book tbh. I feel like Alexa is really hitting her stride with her thrillers.

Whoever this agent was gave you a load of shit.

Quite often people (myself included) say, if only one person reads and enjoys, that's good enough...which is BS lol. BUT I write because I love words and love creating with words and love suprising readers and myself by combining odd things, by being quirky, by being random, and by inviting anyone for the ride :D

Let's get this straight--You paid good money for a polite rejection?

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I'm late! Sporadic with Intention is definitely a lifestyle for me, especially while struggling with depression. Thank you for shouting this out! So many people try to scream from the rooftops about writing every day, but they're not getting 10k words in a day (which is my average on a "writing day"). Appreciate your perspective and voice!

This is very interesting. I found the camera cutting off your forehead very distracting and had to stop several times to refocus so I could hear what you had to say.

Good luck to you.

I’ve never heard of anybody paying for advice from a agent. It’s a known fact that these people turn down 99% of people. You are wasting your time with these people. I was told that what they were looking for was somebody who can write a series. Believe me they’re are not looking for anything. It appears to me that they’re protecting their clients from other authors. I’ve published four children’s books this year. The cost is £2000. Per book. Children’s books are amongst the most expensive especially the ones with colour illustration. The best way to do things is to not bother listening to these agents. Save up and publish the book yourself. You will retain all rights. If you go by a traditional publisher, you’ll be lucky to get a anything back. Once you get published ,hire a PR marketing company. This eliminates any need for an agent. The marketing company will try to get you noticed in newspapers and television.

Such a fun topic to think about. We've been writing all throughout school, but at what point did we decide to put our more creative ideas on paper? We all have our own starts with "I want to do this". I have always daydreamed about imaginary worlds, but I decided that when I was going off to college I wanted to collect my ideas. These started mostly as a few scenes here and there and evolved into a full series.

My darling publisher describes her shouty books as very much like a song that gets stuck in her head until she scribbles it out in paper and ink. In my own writing, I feel a bit like Ishmael in Moby Dick: an unremarkable character surrounded by remarkable ones who are too busy doing cool stuff to tell their own stories.

Great points to reaffirm your desire and goals to be a writer. That is an important battle to fight.