Where Anger, Frustration and Irritation Come From
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- čas přidán 25. 05. 2020
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Dr McGilchrist discusses the 'stickiness' of our brain's hemispheres, and why anger lateralizes in the left hemisphere.
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"he whom sleeps on the floor cannot fall out of bed"
The cat in the backyard made this video comforting.
Loved the book and cited it in my MA. I follow your interviewer elsewhere and delight not only in the content being explored but also imagining the discussion taking place in the heart stretching landscape of Skye. Thank you, please keep chatting. I relish the poetry too. From the wide brown land of Australia.
That's an unusual cat video.
This so helps to explain a fixation I seem to have on a lost love. Thank you for this and for all of your discourses and poetry readings -- heavenly.
Thank you
..but the cat was very calm..😽
Reminds me of the scene in a movie where one character is attacking another and a friend tries to separate the two and gets hurt by the attacker. Looks like a dramatic representation of narrow left brain dominant behaviour blind to the bigger picture
Frustration, anger and irritation are responses to your expectations of what your left hemisphere is attempting to recreate about the world and it does not comport with it.
is there righteous and unrighteous anger?..(as in the case of morality social justice etc..)
Not unless you concede that "rights" are exogenous phenomena, never (!) endogenous. If you concede this, then you are able to differentiate in the way your query proposes. Moralities and codes of social justice are by definition subjectively exogenous (and maybe also theonomous), which gives meaning to the idea of "righteous anger", or "wrath". "Unrighteous anger" ("rage") often arises out of an "entitlement mentality", an endogenous view of one's "rights", although the term "entitlement" itself semantically contains both possibilities. I assume that the coadjutant term "-mentality" gives the phrase the necessary endogenic spin. If you do concede this differentiation, there is no going back, since people know what you mean when you say "righteously angered".
Love McGilchrist's work but am irritated that the example the interviewer chose was of a woman in a state of anger when men are overwhelmingly more violent. Wars and guns and men.
The example was that she realized something about her anger. There was no example of men gaining a deeper insight into theirs.