2014 Personality Lecture 02: Mythological Representations 

Just study the lobsters and you'll gain the same articulation and knowledge.

All geniuses are rare

You know these are not his ideas

It’s the same comment under every single lecture 😂

@@descartes797 Let’s see you articulate these ideas in such a cohesive manner while also capturing the audience and eliciting an emotion response from them. Yeah, you won’t do it. People love to make such petty judgements. It’s actually quite an asinine statement. How could you claim that Dr. Peterson is taking credit for these ideas when all he does is do his best to credit culture and society. Not to mention he will also credit people for direct quotes or tell you who’s idea he’s trying to elucidate.

Was happy he got an applause at the end. Dude's an amazing lecturer.

Thank you

Thank you 🤍

Legend

Thank you!

Very useful

I went to a University myself and I have to agree with you. I am in the field of behavioral psychology, and never once did I ever have a class applaud any Professor. 😐. It is a Peterson phenomenon.🙌👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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You should. It’s at a university. We are blessed

You can, so you should.

@@MrDark720 definitely couldn’t afford Harvard 😅 I wish.

@Bill Stevens I like you

and mind blowing!

Hey , I just a comment six years , in six year what has changed in your life?

I'm wanting to get a tattoo and am seeking the advice of every intelligent/deep person I can find (as vauge as that may be) Could you share with me a symbol or artwork/ image that you find meaningful and of beautiful. I seriously appreciate your ideas

Mind-bogglingly boggled*

Hey. I know this might not help but I'll try anyway. You seeking help within his videos and even just seeking help out in the world, like you're doing when you look in the interwebs, are steps in the right direction already. You hang in there and you be the amazing human you were meant to be 🙌🙌🔥🔥.

Love this

I wish you find friends and people around you who love you! They hug you and tell you that you matter for them. They hug you and you feel love. We need love more than suggestions how to feel better and what you should do.

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One problem with dominance hierarchy with humans: if you high in the hierarchy because you were born in it, you maybe weak as hell with entitlement as strong as drug addiction. With humans, it can be multiple generations that you are living in your hierarchy because of inheritance. That is why democracy and upward mobility creates not just "justice", but resilience. The whole society benefits from it.

Do you knw others like him?

yes, Alain the Botton - Swiss-British philosopher, ca. 40 years old. Brilliant, entertaining (established School of Life - on youtube, too).

or Dr. Russel Barkley, expert on ADHD - absolutely brilliant (und understandable) rhetoric.

I'm wanting to get a tattoo and am seeking the advice of every intelligent/deep person I can find (as vauge as that may be) Could you share with me a symbol or artwork/ image that you find meaningful and of beautiful. I seriously appreciate your ideas

@@meinungabundance7696 thank you

you mean he's now healthier?

@Onuorah Ikechukwu he mentioned on a joe rogan podcast that the carnivore got rid of his chronic diseases and made him much healthier

@Onuorah Ikechukwu Jordan Peterson wasn't actually doing a carnivore diet, He only ate he ate greens and meats. That might still be a carnivore diet but I know he ate greens.

@Onuorah Ikechukwu he basically didnt eat any sugar and minimum carbohydrates, he ate fish and leafy greens. I'm not talking about the diet being good, I was just pointing out that he ate greens as well.

@@brandonpalfi8106 He gave up greens at the end too

He has been doing this lecture (or kind of lecture) since around 1992 at Harvard. You can see the 1996 lecture series from Harvard on his channel if you look down the playlists. He has also given short TV-based lectures since the 1990s I think, with some notable ones from 2011 and prior, along with all his stuff from 2011-2013 on The Agenda show (also on his channel), and this lecture, in part, comes from his 1999 book, Maps of Meaning, which he began in 1985 (it's the book he uses in the 1996 lecture), and it's the name of his other lecture series of the same name, of course. So, no, it's not his first rodeo at all. He has been a world-class Jungian thinker and public speaker and teacher since the 1990s.

@@TheClassicWorld He's actually not a Jungian thinker, its a common misconception

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Hey Thanks for the recommendation, I have completed those, any other good lecture series recommendations?

@@aryansetu3902 Awakening from the meaning crisis 😎

@@aryansetu3902 try some krishnamurti talks.

When I went to college, we didn't say anything. Only the teacher said goodbye. The lectures were nowhere near as interesting as these, however.

Here in Germany (University of Dresden) we do not clap at the end, we knock instead on the tables when the professor is done (that's a university thing more or less though, in other placed germans clap just as normal people ; )

I clapped at home after watching this. This is beyond any lecture i ever had in my entire life

@Jay Bee I thought Jordan Peterson went to Harvard. Am I mistaken about that?

@@gifctdotorgthought-police3706 Nope. And yes he went!

But how is that truth? Just because something avails you in life, doesn't mean it's true. It's just beneficial. And those benefits also seem to be precarious. Perhaps what benefits you now would endanger you in the future. Even immoral acts can serve your life and make it better, does that make it true as well?

By the way, in case you didn't figure it out already (since this comment is 2-years-old), Jordan is not like Campbell much and doesn't like Campbell very much because he thinks Campbell isn't deep or dark enough, unlike Jung. I think Jordan is closer to Jung and much darker and deeper than Campbell ever was. The problem with Campbell and many others like him is that they only tell half the story and view the world too much in the positive and don't give enough time to the negative side, of the Self, for example. You will notice this is partly why Star Wars is so bright and not as dark as it could/should be as Lucas based Star Wars largely from Campbell, when he should have spent years longer on it and gone directly to Jung and others, though the lightness did help Star Wars become insanely popular, of course, and I think it's deep and dark enough, as Lucas did a great job overall and at many levels with Star Wars 1-6. He studied Campbell for 2 years in making the first Star Wars film. But, if it was darker, it would have been The Lord of the Rings in space and a true masterpiece for all time, regardless of the format, but, instead, Star Wars is more like Narnia in space and not quite as dark and deep, and tends to only show half the story and doesn't dig deep enough into either nature or the evil within oneself, whereas, The Lord of the Rings got it all perfectly right. But, I digress.

@@TheClassicWorld Once i watched a lot of Jordans Hero/ Mythology and similar lectures i could help but to see how influenced by Campbell he is. But its probably true that he doesn't like him much because he never mentions him, whilst building off of his work

Didn't watch these videos yet, but couldn't be the case that the educational environment now is more friendly and they feel allowed to laugh?

Great observation

Imagine viewing these lectures and focusing primarily on the audience’s reaction as opposed to the subject matter discussed lol what a pitiful waste.

@@3Drives Perhaps, but its definitely the case that Harvard students take their education a lot more seriously and it would be frowned upon to laugh about such serious subject matter in that environment

@@padarousoupsychology prof walks in and says “good morning.” The class says “good morning.” Engineering prof walks in and says “good morning” and the class all write it down in their notes. ;)

I Love ❤️ Peterson ‘s thought.

Yep. Nintendo is, partly, so popular because it goes the archetypes and storytelling correct, overall, and more so with regards to the West. That's why it's funny -- and insane -- when the radical types come out now trying to claim that Nintendo is 'sexist' and 'racist' and needs to be completely changed. They don't understand anything. Nintendo is very deep and got its psychology correct, that's what makes those little fun games so great. Jordan talks about this and other video games over the years, at least a little.

"It could be that men have sort of been the narrators of our mythology. It has always been from their perspective." It could have been. it could have been otherwise. That's what needs to be checked before proceeding any further with your thoughts.

(This may come out above my previous post, but is intended to follow on from it.) And also, even if it were to demonstrable that men have been the main narrators of the mythology, that wouldn't necessarily make the narrations themselves biased towards the male perspective. Finally, even if we could show that they had biased towards the male perspective, that doesn't prove anything along the lines that the male perspective itself is antagonistic towards females.

History from a women's perspective would not be too different. Philosophical ideas might be.

Foucault? As in Michel Foucault the same scum who wanted to abolish age of consent? If you wonder about that makes me think you haven't read Jung for he states the unknown conscious is the opposite of the gender of the individual for the individual. It's not because it's from a male perspective; it's because females present the possibility of a new life, they nurture offsprings, are more emotional and unpredictable. Also historically the necessity of protecting women due to their vital function to the preservation of the species, literally forced humanity as a whole to explore the unknown in search for solutions to bring order into a rather chaotic world.

Women literally give birth to new forms, how can it not represent possibilities? It can give roots for an entirely new order. That said, it is possible to view feminine as order and masculine and chaos too, but I have a hard time seeing masculinity representing possibilities. Also, the point here is not masculine or feminine, but the constant juggle to an equilibrium.

I think collectivism is the inability to understand how different we are. When you think if everybody would think the same way, it would be just wonderful. That is "purity" too. To have that one, perfect way of being. Which is delusional because people will be always different, we like different things, we have different personalities, we have different hormones, different things make us happy... "If everyone would think the same way as I, it would be a peaceful world", said all who supported totalitarian regimes. The only way to have one vision is to suppress everybody else. And it is always ugly. Purity culture is sexual abstinence, but emphasizing some kind of flawless, imaginary, childish state that is unreal. Collectivism is when the individual diminished and being part of the group is emphasized.

You're a few standard deviations from the mean.

Which could either be a compliment or an insult, which is kind of funny. :)

Emily Taege on the positive side of the distribution lol.

so??

Closing on 35 000 right now, I do hope to see this transformed into a true online university with hundreds of thousands of views on dozens of professors debating theyr views and knowledge.

When you touch the screen, on the right upper corner, you have a ⚙️ (if you touch this, you can change the speed, if you want to take more time to listen. Oh! Here is an option to turn on capture too.) in the middle, you see two cc in a box. Click on it, thas is caption.

Franciszek Kołpanowicz in the first lecture he showed some link to this courses website, there are some PDFs and at least the names of the books. No links to the books themselves though, as far as I remember

@@riphro6784 Thanks! In the meantime, I found it myself. There is the whole reading list uploaded in PDFs on Peterson's website! The reading list covers only fragments from the books and essays, and these are all here, if anybody's interested: www.jordanbpeterson.com/classes/personality-and-its-transformations/

I was thinking the same thing.

Fucking annoying lol