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Maps of Meaning: 1: Context and Background

Lecture 1 of 12 · Maps of Meaning

1: Context and Background

Jordan B. Peterson · 2h 31m · English

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Peterson starts from the Cold War — two armed camps built around hydrogen bombs — to ask what a belief is and why people fight to protect it. He proposes that culture has a narrative structure with three characters: the individual, the known and the unknown.

Maps of Meaning

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Maps of Meaning: 1: Context and Background

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Maps of Meaning: 2: Marionettes and Individuals (Part 1)

Lecture 2 · 2h 23m2: Marionettes and Individuals (Part 1)

Maps of Meaning: 3: Marionettes and Individuals (Part 2)

Lecture 3 · 2h 26m3: Marionettes and Individuals (Part 2)

Maps of Meaning: 4: Marionettes and Individuals (Part 3)

Lecture 4 · 2h 12m4: Marionettes and Individuals (Part 3)

Maps of Meaning: 5: Story and Metastory (Part 1)

Lecture 5 · 2h 22m5: Story and Metastory (Part 1)

Maps of Meaning: 6: Story and Metastory (Part 2)

Lecture 6 · 2h 27m6: Story and Metastory (Part 2)

Maps of Meaning: 7: Images of Story and Metastory

Lecture 7 · 2h 11m7: Images of Story and Metastory

Maps of Meaning: 8: Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation

Lecture 8 · 2h 21m8: Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation

Maps of Meaning: 9: Patterns of Symbolic Representation

Lecture 9 · 2h 16m9: Patterns of Symbolic Representation

Maps of Meaning: 10: Genesis and the Buddha

Lecture 10 · 2h 18m10: Genesis and the Buddha

Maps of Meaning: 11: The Flood and the Tower

Lecture 11 · 2h 32m11: The Flood and the Tower

Maps of Meaning: 12: The Divinity of the Individual

Lecture 12 · 2h 25m12: The Divinity of the Individual