#but this little chunk of text is extremely clarifying in a way no canon text that ive read so far has been

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Star Wars Psychology | Chapter 1 - The Good, the Bad, and the Scruffy: Can We Define Good and Evil?

This is a very cool way of describing how Force-users interact with other living things, and I think it gets to the nut of the issue about why “emotions” are such a contentious thing with the Jedi and why they have so many rules governing their control and usage. But it also makes me wonder if part of the reason Obi-Wan is so grumpy sometimes is because, on top of having to deal with the task of raising Anakin, he’s pretty much always in close proximity to Anakin’s outbursts, so he constantly inherits his Padawan’s petulant attitude and has to suppress the impulse to be petulant in return

#sw.txt #the force #sw meta #brobikin #anakin: is misbehaving #obi-wan: god dammit why do i want to kick someones ass right now #also i know this book isnt canon and isnt official sw material #and needs to be read VERY critically and with deep suspicion just because of some of the psychological sources it cites #but this little chunk of text is extremely clarifying in a way no canon text that ive read so far has been #i think the impulse from authors to by mystical about the force #leads them to write deliberately vague and weird descriptions about a jedi’s connection to it #and i think for padawans and jedi who arent scholars thats probably sufficient #but like you cant tell me that jedi like mace or obi-wan or qui-gon #dont have very deep and precise analytical understandings of their connection to the force #or like debate about theories ABOUT those connections #because i mean this is just one proposal for how jedi interface with the force #if ‘interface’ is even the appropriate term #see what i mean like. theres so much space you could fill #writing about fictious philosphical models for a jedi’s connection to the force #that isnt just ‘woah space magic’ vagueness