Ice Vapor Goddess

Chapter 75: Sanjiang's Remarks and Upcoming Release Announcement

This is the first time in my life I've written a reflection on the Three Rivers Project, I'm so excited (rubbing my hands).

It will be available on Sanjiang on Sunday afternoon, and then officially launched on the shelves next Wednesday (October 29th). I hope you will support it!
To get to this point, I first want to thank all the readers. I never expected so many people would like it, and I am truly grateful.

The sales figures for a new book rely entirely on readership, so it's absolutely true that everyone is enthusiastically supporting the book.

Then I want to thank the editor, Penglai, who has been helping me a lot since the last book, "Rescue Me," and has been sending me messages during the years when I stopped updating.

This time, I submitted my book through his internal submission process. He has been keeping an eye on my progress ever since, helping me get many chapters recommended, giving me suggestions, and offering feedback.

thank you very much!

Then I also want to thank my girlfriend. I am a very easily influenced person and always want to please everyone. Once I am rejected, I become very anxious and in great pain. During the difficult few days before, she kept comforting me and helping me get out of my psychological predicament.

Finally, a small thank you to myself; I only did some insignificant work.
Okay, now that we've covered the most important points, we'll move on to two parts: "Personal Account," "Religious Issues," "The Difference Between Psychoanalysis in Novels and Reality," and "Easter Egg."

Because some readers might not be interested in some of the content, a simple table of contents has been created.
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First, this is my personal statement. I think it's better for the author and the work not to be too closely linked, but because of the content I write, some people may be curious about whether I am a believer or whether I have formal training in the field.

First of all, I am not a follower of any religion, but I am curious about and have a research attitude towards religion. I also have a certain interest in religious history and philosophical connotations. The reason for writing about the little boy at the beginning is to clarify my religious stance. After the hell joke, basically no one should doubt that I am a believer.

I didn't study philosophy or psychoanalysis; it was all out of interest and self-study. You could call it online philosophy, but I don't debate with people online.

Before I started studying Lacanian psychoanalysis, I was entirely self-taught. When I couldn't understand Lacan's original texts, I would read Žižek's. When I still couldn't understand Žižek's, I would find a book by Zhang Yibing and finally be able to understand it. After that, I would go back to Žižek and then back to Lacan. During that time, I also read some of Freud's books. Recently, I enrolled in a seminar on everyday psychosis, but I've only attended the second class so far.

The idea of ​​incorporating psychoanalysis into my novel came to me two months ago when I was reading "Dr. Dawn". I felt that since medicine can be written about, then incorporating psychoanalysis should be acceptable to readers.

My major is business management, and I'm still in college. So far, I haven't had any opportunity to use my professional knowledge at all (sad).

Then, I am a person with a wide range of interests. My last book used Chinese philosophy, physics and astronomy, while this book is entirely Western philosophy and religion. Perhaps I can come up with something else for my next book.
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Then there's the issue of religion. I'm only a dabbler in religious knowledge, but I'm not purely religious either.

The core religious ideas in this book can be summarized in three books: "An Outline of the Philosophy of History", "Fear and Trembling", and "Puppet and Dwarf: The Perverted Core of Christianity".

None of these three books are serious theological works; two are left-wing and theological, and one is theological but the author himself is a pioneer of existentialism.

I won't say much more, since the story has only just begun. I will try my best to present these things through the story.
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Then there's the difference between psychoanalysis in novels and in reality.

This is quite important because the situations in the novel differ significantly from real-world psychoanalysis, mainly due to plot requirements, historical context, and characters' perspectives. If readers were to judge real-world psychoanalysis solely based on my work, it would lead to many misunderstandings; therefore, I'm clarifying this here.

Firstly, analyses in books are usually done quickly, perhaps in just a few paragraphs, but real-world psychoanalysis is generally a long process, often lasting several years.

For artistic purposes, I will usually compress the time spent on psychoanalysis, but retain the most essential parts, and I will write a few longer sections later.

Secondly, real-world psychoanalysis doesn't provide a "joint" like the protagonist does—such as faith or loyalty. This approach is actually similar to modern psychology, which is inferior and heretical.

Generally, a psychoanalysis session ends with "taking responsibility for desires," "crossing over basic fantasies," or "achieving consistency with symptoms," and requires "the analyst to completely withdraw."

I won't go into detail about the first three paragraphs, as the book will use various cases to illustrate this (for example, Aldridge takes responsibility for his desires, and Joseph traverses fantasy and forcibly reconstructs the symbolic order). However, the protagonist, from his personal standpoint as a bishop, will not end the story in a normal psychoanalytic way.

He helps clients see their problems and traumas clearly, but he also uses faith and loyalty to provide healing or explanation. After his analysis, he doesn't leave but continues to stand in the position of the Other, leading people to follow him.

This practice violates modern psychoanalytic ethics, but in the context of the late 19th century, it can only be described as somewhat utilitarian, and I think it appeared as a source of pleasure.

In addition, this approach greatly accelerates the psychoanalytic process. Normally, people suffer for a long time before the analysis is fully completed, but Siron directly provides new "discourses of the other".

Third, psychologists and psychoanalysts are very different.

Psychologists are generally graduates of medical schools and use medication for treatment. Talking is secondary. Moreover, due to the influence of a certain major country across the Pacific, they are increasingly inclined to prescribe medication in treatment to regulate hormones and control emotions.

Psychoanalysts are closer to philosophy and practice pure talk therapy, using only words to treat patients. Lacanians generally understand the patient's consciousness, past, language, desires, and fantasies through "being-in-the-word" to resolve the patient's problems.

In addition, there are different schools of thought in psychoanalysis. I am currently only relatively familiar with the Lacanian and Freudian schools.
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Finally, there's a bonus scene, which is something fun.

Actually, I didn't plan to write this book before, because it involves too much professional knowledge and I wasn't confident. So I wrote a web novel about online games to practice and transition, but it was rejected by the editor when I submitted it internally—the protagonist of that book was named Julien.

The main character was supposed to have violin and organ skills, but after I bought the violin and practiced for an hour, it completely fell into disuse. I also couldn't find any Chinese tutorials for the organ. It's a pity that I lost both skills.

I hadn't read Minzel before, but after seeing a reader mention it, I did some research and that's how I came across the Millennium Kingdom section.

The CK3 Under the Sky DLC is about to be released, but I'm currently in class during the day and writing at night, so I probably won't have time to play it (sad).

Finally—when did Caesar get out of Valentina's car?
(End of this chapter)