Natalie's philosophy class for high school students. I should have read a Rousseau book. But it is completely a true portrayal of her own soul. "When we have desire, we can not be happy, we wait for it to come true in the future. If happiness does not come, hope will spread. As long as the passion lasts, the magic of fantasy will last. This state is self-sufficient. Its attendant Anxiety is a satisfaction, it fills the truth. Misfortune belongs to those who have no desire. They lose everything they have because of it. Hope is more satisfying than possession. Real happiness comes before it exists.” Julie Thinking again of her former passion, her unfinished love with Saint-Pierre, she hopes to be with him one day. This hopefully makes her happy. Because Julie will be content that the dream will one day become a reality. This state is self-sufficient, it is the magic of imagination. She reciprocates the absent lover with pure imaginary joy. Even if it is not real it is powerful. For someone as imaginative as Julie, or even Rousseau himself, meditative gratification constructs the solace of the real, which fills and replaces the desires of the flesh. After 25 years of marriage, Natalie's husband found a new love, the children grew up, and the neurotic mother who had been in need of her care died. Suddenly, she gained the freedom and loneliness that she had never had before and was no longer needed by anyone. The only sustenance is the ideological resonance with one of his students. Later, he also got married and drifted away from her philosophically. She is alone, but fortunately, she has books as her company and a rich spiritual world. She fills the void of reality with her imagination and walks the world calmly.
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