This text connects two worlds that do not often meet - that of neuropsychology and cognitive science with Freudian theory and Jungian approaches to mythology and narrative. Peterson shows the reader that there is an empirical connection between what technologically sophisticated neuroscience tells us about the brain and behaviour, and what ritual, myths, and religious stories have long narrated. This connection has applications that play a key role in understanding human emotions and motivations for social conflict.
By:
Jordan B. Peterson
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 178mm,
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 907g
ISBN: 9780415922227
ISBN 10: 0415922224
Pages: 564
Publication Date: 24 March 1999
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Professional & Vocational
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Primary
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface: Descensus ad Inferos 1. Maps of Experience: Object and Meaning 2. Maps of Meaning: Three Levels of Analysis Normal and RevolutionaryLife: Two Prosaic Stories Neuropsychological Function:The Nature of the Mind Mythological Representation:TheConstitutent Elements of Experience 3. Apprenticeship and Enculturation: Adoption of a Shared Map 4. The Appearance of Anomaly: Challenge to the Shared Map Introduction: The Paradigmatic Structure ofthe Known Particular Forms of Anomaly The Rise ofSelf-Reference, and the Permanent Contamination ofAnomaly with Death 5. The Hostile Brothers: Archetypes of Response to the Unknown Introduction:The Hero and the Adversary The Adversary: Emergence,Development and Representation Heroic Adaptation:Voluntary Reconstruction of the Map ofMeaning Conclusion: The Divinity of Interest
Jordan B. Peterson is a clinical psychologist and Professor at the University of Toronto and was formerly at Harvard University. He has published numerous articles on drug abuse, alcoholism and aggression.
Reviews for Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
The book reflects its author's profound moral sense and vast erudition in areas ranging from clinical psychology to scripture and a good deal of personal soul-searching and experience...with patients who include prisoners, alcoholics and the mentally ill. -- Montreal Gazette This is not a book to be abstracted and summarized. Rather it should be read at leisure...and employed as a stimulus and reference to expand one's own maps of meaning. I plan to return to Peterson's musings and mapping many times over the next few years. -- Am J Psychiatry ...a brilliant enlargement of our understanding of human motivation...a beautiful work. -- Sheldon H. White, Harvard University ...unique...a brilliant new synthesis of the meaning of mythologies and our human need to relate in story form the deep structure of our experiences. -- Keith Oatley, University of Toronto
