Did I analyze the structure of this sentence correctly?


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It is from line 13-14:
頭の中に具体的に理想の自分がイメージできたら、立っている位置を変えて、今の、つまりイメージの中では過去の自分と向き合うのです。

"When the self of concrete ideals comes up in the mind and you switch the
position you are standing on, in other words in the inside of the image of
now, you are face to face with your past self."

The placement of つまり for example confused me because at least from my foreign
perspective its like its just thrown into the clause it belongs to xD Also, I
feel unsure about my understanding of the clause ranging from 今の to 中では and
its integration into the surrounding. I didn't really know what to make of the
particle で in this particular context, and I think my rather bumpy translation
reflects this, because the image (pun intended) that comes to mind when
reading this part seems overly complicated to me...^^




つまり is summing up what has just been said. It seems to me like you've got it
perfectly right. I'd translate the sentence a bit differently, but I think
you've done a decent job. Here's how I'd approach it.

> If in your mind you can concretely imagine your ideal self, swap the place
> where you are standing, **in other words** in this imagining the you who you
> are now is facing the you who you were in the past.

If I wanted this to sound a bit more fluid in English then I might take
greater liberties with the translation and render it as

> Once you've managed to imagine your ideal self, swap places. In other words,
> you imagine that you are now your future self facing your current self.

I think part of what you might be struggling with is are the relative clauses
今の and 過去の. You could think of "の” as being "of", but I think it's much better
in this context to think of it as a particular form of ”だ” used to modify a
following noun.




つまり is summing up what has just been said. It seems to me like you've got it
perfectly right. I'd translate the sentence a bit differently, but I think
you've done a decent job. Here's how I'd approach it.

> If in your mind you can concretely imagine your ideal self, swap the place
> where you are standing, **in other words** in this imagining the you who you
> are now is facing the you who you were in the past.

If I wanted this to sound a bit more fluid in English then I might take
greater liberties with the translation and render it as

> Once you've managed to imagine your ideal self, swap places. In other words,
> you imagine that you are now your future self facing your current self.

I think part of what you might be struggling with is are the relative clauses
今の and 過去の. You could think of "の” as being "of", but I think it's much better
in this context to think of it as a particular form of ”だ” used to modify a
following noun.

