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How to get out of a sense of meaninglessness and depression

In the previous video

We focus on a sense of depression

A state of total instability

I call it a philosophical depression.

General depression

Often caused by specific external events

or situation-induced

Such as unemployment, breakup, relationship breakdown, illness,

Huge work pressure

Or other blows

The person is depressed

There are often more specific events

Despite this low mood

It will also spread to other areas

But the starting point is relatively clear.

As long as the situation or event is improved

Depression can be greatly improved and relieved

The parties involved may not necessarily understand the meaning of all life.

A rational suspicion

But what we call this philosophical depression

It is not or is not primarily due to a worsening of life

Or got hit

On the contrary, to some extent

Precisely because the life of the person concerned has become better

That is, after getting rid of the old constraints and pressures

The parties feel

I can finally break away from my original value system.

This creates a huge psychological vacuum.

Raise doubts about the deep meaning of life

certainly

People in reality are always complicated

On a specific person

These two types of depression are not mutually exclusive.

Depression in many people

yes

It includes depression caused by specific negative events.

It also includes this kind of philosophical depression

But the latter depression has a core feature

It's not easy for him to pass

Solve a specific life problem

To relieve

and

This melancholy is accompanied by a great deal of introspection.

and highly developed rational thinking

Showing suspicion of everything in daily life

and critical

for example

I know a civil servant from a local government.

He was good at writing when he was young

He was once a famous writer in the unit.

But he also always felt that this kind of writing was very boring

He longs to be a free writer

Write whatever you want

Inspire readers with your own ideas

But when he really resigned

When I started to have a lot of free time to read and think

He found that he couldn't write anything.

He first realized

writing

It's not as easy as I originally imagined.

It's an extremely difficult thing.

He thought he just had to resign.

Creativity suppressed by the system

It will be released immediately

But he found

When he is free

He doesn't want to write anything.

He realized

In the original false writing

Too much pain suppressed

These emotions flooded him.

Let him bear

Original writing

Always within a fixed identity and framework

To play the role of a pen holder

Now that all these frameworks have been removed

He had to expose himself to his pure self

No one told him what was important.

What makes sense

He must come from within himself

To produce a sense of meaning

But when he tried to open his inner

What we discover are emotions that have not been integrated by consciousness.

These emotions

Just like the river water after the ice melts

It came out all at once

So all the old beliefs and dogmas

The inevitability is lost.

All that's left is pure nothingness

The person involved seems to be in a state of not wanting to do anything.

A stagnation

Even a state of regression

It's like an animal shedding its skin

During molting

He was at his most vulnerable, breaking free of his old shell

But there is no new shell to protect itself

This is actually a common phenomenon of philosophical depression.

The parties involved feel

I seem to be becoming more incompetent and confused.

For example, the lady we talked about in the last video

She through her own efforts

Get rid of the environment that restricts you

Came to a freer country

And have more free time to read and think

So she began to boldly doubt and deny

Everything that suppressed me before

For example, traditional marriage concepts

Trauma of the original family

Misleading and Deceptive in Chinese Education

Ideology and political propaganda, etc.

She had a strong desire to see the course of her own existence

These reflections are of course very profound.

However

But it also made her fall into loneliness, pain and anger.

When she put patriarchy,

After the deconstruction of nationalism and authoritarian culture

She felt even more distressed and divided.

She didn't know how to reconcile with this emotion.

In fact, her experience

It is very similar to

Hegel mentioned in "Phenomenology of Spirit"

Distress Consciousness

Or the consciousness of misfortune

Hegel believes

Distress consciousness is a necessary stage in spiritual development

Stoicism

A unity of skepticism

So where does this sense of distress come from?

We say

If a person's mind is developing normally

Then at a certain stage

He will be eager to know more truth

Will try to deconstruct and doubt

The ideas we are accustomed to

As his suspicions grew

He will have a sense of misfortune.

This misfortune

It is not an emotion about a specific event.

It is a feeling towards the world as a whole.

Phenomenology of Spirit says

This distressed self splits into two consciousnesses

Because of this contradiction in its nature

It is contained in a consciousness

So in one consciousness

There must always be another consciousness

So when each side thinks they have won,

When a quiet unity is achieved

So

It is immediately expelled from the unity

This means that

There is such a contradiction in the unfortunate consciousness

One is the other side, the ideal,

Transcendental Self-Awareness

The other is specific, individual,

Limited self-awareness

Both are indispensable

The reason why I feel unhappy

It's not just because I am limited,

Individuals living in contingency and imperfection

It is because

There is a transcendent self within me

This self is an infinite, pure thinker

When I criticize the ugliness and inferiority of reality

With the concept of equality and freedom

When I examine the inequality and lack of freedom in my reality

I am standing at a transcendental perspective.

If I were completely immersed in the perspective of reality

Then I'll just shut up.

Compromise with reality

I would use "existence is reasonable"

"Being content is the greatest happiness" is used to persuade oneself to let go.

However

It is because I have an ideal standard in my heart

I know that according to the concept and logic

This is how it should be

But not at this time

I feel pain and misery

We often see

Many people live in pain

But they are numb.

They say life is hard.

But this does not mean that there is a sense of misfortune.

They might think

Just make a little more money.

As long as the baby is born, it will be fine.

This explains

The pain of reality

This does not necessarily lead to a sense of misfortune.

The key is to have a transcendental vision

However, at this stage

This transcendental self

Just a subjective thought

The more rational, complete and profound the individual's philosophy is, the more

The more it highlights the real life of individuals

and past history

Full of chance

So subjective and objective

This side and the other side can never reconcile

The parties live in a state of confusion between reality and themselves

In the hatred of finiteness

Including the blind obedience and ignorance of my past self,

Moments of pettiness, weakness or animality

etc.

These histories seem to be undeniable by the parties involved

So they are regarded as enemies.

and

We have to think hard to fight these enemies.

The result was that the person involved became even angrier

This is what Hegel said:

"Since this enemy

It was created when he was knocked down.

And since this enemy is established by consciousness itself

and fixed

Therefore, consciousness cannot drive away the enemy.

Instead, I always get entangled with the enemy.

And saw himself continually defiled by his enemies."

This is a profound split.

The sharper and deeper the individual's thinking,

In real life

Instead, they fell further into incompetence and contraction.

And this feeling of division

It is usually difficult for people around you to understand.

Those who have not experienced this path of doubt

Or consider it unreasonable

Or just feel

The person involved is simply depressed and sick.

I can't understand the depth of this depression.

It is worth mentioning that

Distress Consciousness

Not only an important stage in Hegel's philosophy

Hegel himself

A true experience in youth

In 1797, the 27-year-old Hegel moved to Frankfurt.

There, Hegel felt more and more

Contradictions and oppositions are everywhere

So he experienced the biggest mental crisis of his life.

He fell into a state of hypochondria and self-destruction

Later he recalled that period of his life:

“This state of hypochondria

I suffered for several years

Almost mentally paralyzed...

Everyone in his life

We all have to go through such a turning point

This is a dark contraction point in his nature

He's going to pass this.

To reach a safe situation

Thus convincing himself...”

So how does one get through this?

We say

The key to getting out of this split

Neither is it giving up thinking

Nor is it merely criticizing reality from the perspective of what should be.

otherwise

The objective world is still alien to humans.

Individuals will still feel unhappy

The key to reconciliation is

Individuals need to be aware

Those transcendental ideas are not merely subjective

And it is already contained in objective reality

And it is the result of the natural development of objective reality

For example, a lady

May narrate their life in a passive way

She felt herself

Been deceived by various wrong ideologies

Entered the wrong marriage, a bad workplace environment

And now she

Finally I realized all this clearly.

She used these events as the main axis of her life

These are of course objective and true

But it’s not the whole truth

because

If I were just a passive recipient

Is the torrent of life

And driven by the contingency of fate

So why am I

Haven’t you been assimilated by those wrong ideologies?

What events prevented me from being assimilated?

And how can he still remain conscious until now?

We need to know

Everyone's life experience

There are thousands of fragments

Full of multiple stories

These stories are told through

After being narrated and spoken in a certain order

Entered people's consciousness

At this point they are no longer just passive messages

It provides a new framework for interpreting our experience.

It also determines how we view ourselves and others.

When we follow this line of thought to find

To expand our horizons

You can find some

Side events and plots that differ from the mainstream narrative

These events often contain

Our own unrecognized power,

Resources, resilience and courage

for example

We mentioned at the beginning of the video

The man who wanted to write

Although he was very much in favor of his work in his early years

I have no doubts about the system.

However, even at that time

He also procrastinates, resists, and forgets from time to time.

These things seemed to be

It is totally incomprehensible

It's also sick and terrible.

And it gradually destroyed his ability to work.

However nowadays

But it led him down a path

A more authentic life path

Even though he

I haven't read any negative opinions about the system.

and Thought

For example, that lady

She is in a bad marriage and lonely

Did not give up on myself

Still trying to make various attempts

Find a way to leave China

Get away from it all

She may not have had a clear understanding of these at the time.

Even people around her think that her life is good.

But she just felt something was wrong

With an intuition and inner inspiration

She overcame a lot of resistance

Only later did she reflect on

How reasonable it is to leave that bad environment by yourself

However, this rational cognition lags behind intuition.

For example

A rather depressed high school student

I had good grades.

But I accidentally fell in love with a hobby

This caused his grades to get worse.

And everyone around him thought he was addicted

However, it made him

Opened a new social starting point and career path

This shows that even in the past

In those who are involuntarily, misled,

During the time when I was blinded and bound

In the individual's heart

There is still a transcendent self

It is constantly leading itself

It's just this transcendental self

Not necessarily through revelation,

Suggestive and intuitive approach

It may also be an unconscious resistance

Some seemingly self-destructive actions

Even some kind of morbid addiction

To present oneself

As Winnicott believed

When an individual suffers from certain physical or mental illnesses

Those symptoms may be my true self expressing itself

Because this is the first time in my life

For the first time, I felt that I was no longer overwhelmed by the environment.

But exist alone in a creative way

I will never be replaced or ignored by anyone again

To some extent

These symptoms

They all serve to preserve the individual's true self.

It is not subject to social and moral authority.

Completely unified

These symptoms

In the past, they were considered alien to each other and wrong.

Now the person involved has finally recognized

It is actually the transcendental self

When individuals discover that whether they are awake or not

All your experiences, intentions and actions

Universal and Transcendental Self

are present at the same time

People save themselves.

Behind those limited moments

There is always an infinite self

at this time

The parties finally stopped regarding external reality

Including the world, others, environment, and chance

Completely opposite to oneself

But understand that:

All of this is the unfolding form of self-consciousness.

So, people no longer escape from reality.

It's not just about resisting reality.

But finally realized

“Reality” is the process of “concept” unfolding in time

I am the bearer of that concept.

So the individual has an absolute confidence

That you will never really get lost.

Never really lose yourself

He was sure that it was nothing else.

It's him

He will gain a deep sense of integration between himself and the world.

Even if he encounters setbacks and failures

He will also feel

All of this has value in a higher dimensional world

So we will no longer fall into complete nothingness and doubt

He will feel that he does everything

All the feelings that arise in my heart have meaning

At this time, people return to the world again.

This is reflected in

He is more open and positive in his external behavior

He will begin to care about others and society again.

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