2017 Personality 02/03: Historical & Mythological Context

In this lecture, 02 and 03 combined, I provide some historical context for the understanding of personality, suggesting that the clinical theories, concerned with the transformation and improvement of personality and character, are embedded within a classic narrative/mythological structure.
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It´s 10pm, Sunday, I´m sitting in my room at home, and I´m watching a lecture by today´s one of the greatest minds in psychology for free. This era we live in today has its flaws, but this is definitely something to be happy about.

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[@HolyHubcap]

"You can't have proper respect for your self until you know that you're a monster. Because you won't act carefully enough." There is a lot of wisdom in that.

[@ydela1961]

"You cannot have proper respect for yourself until you know you're capable of some good. Because you won't act at all" would be my response. If we only see ourselves as monstrous evildoers, the only way to prevent evil is to not act at all. We need to believe that sometimes the output of our actions can be improvement and not inescapable decline.

[@jacob11269]

Certainly, just in this lecture he's mentioned that there are two elements of the human psyche; the benevolent and the resentful. They are just as important and both constitute a well developed individual, like yin and yang. True power of spirit seems to be born from the familiarity of one's shadow, and the conscious taming of it. I think he emphasised the importance of the monster within, because we're always told to play nice, and that any evidence of one's malevolent nature should never see the light of day.

[@scarletpimpernel230]

Sounds suspiciously like the Christian concept of Original Sin....speak for yourself and the potential evil inside YOU, Dr. Peterson-in your lectures you really should announce when you're speaking as a BELIEVER and not a SCIENTIST....

[@scarletpimpernel230]

Jordan Peterson: "Every human being could be Charles Manson or Hitler." This makes as little sense as saying that every person could be Einstein, Shakespeare, or da Vinci.

[@jacob11269]

As you might have noticed, this series of lectures is heavily influenced by the work of Carl Jung. The fact that many mythological and religious texts are filled with Jungian archetypes surely leads to the association of such texts with concepts discussed in the lecture, regardless of Dr Peterson's viewpoint.

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Roughly speaking

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Or Lobsters.

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[@acts9531]

@ Nimbus Catbot Well ... According to the information in this lecture that would be a post-modernist relating a one sided ideological narrative in order to place obstructions between you and your success as a viable person. No wonder Peterson detests the post-modernist ideology.

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[@Cowboy.underwater]

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[@mattvarela]

02/03. Historical & Mythological Context - about mythological universally known stories: - a. why it is comprehensible - b. why it is enjoyable - c. what exactly are you doing - cultures use music to organise themselves, to catalyse their identities - in archaic societies, rituals use music and dance as symbolic representations of a mode of being in the world (ex. animals, leader, family, nature, etc.) - HOW SHOULD ONE CONDUCT ONESELF IN THE WORLD? - axioms of faith …society is supported on philosophical foundations, metaphysical ideas, these are manifested in stories and myths - the individual has transcendent worth, fundamental axiom from which the human rights in western civilisation is derived “we hold theses truths to be self evident” - mythical underworld (unknown/chaos) …place where you go when things fall apart, when an axiom with which you conduct your life, disappears/gets destroyed/fails/etc. The worst case scenario you can find yourself in is when you are playing a causal role in the “falling apart” of the axiom, this is specially hard to define. - road to health …from a psychoanalyst perspective is that if you are not doing well, which means that the combination of your presuppositions and your actions translated as habits are not matching with how the world is responding. Then finding whats wrong with your presuppositions/action patterns and so why are they not producing the desirable outcome is what might get you out of the underworld. - ej. maybe your are not moving forward because of fear, maybe that fear is grounded in terrible experiences from the past that you were never able to understand. - what are you avoiding? from fear? disgust? - we are nested inside a dream cause we can’t know everything, we have to take things as givens and those things are nested inside stories, we accept the stories as valid, and then outside the stories is the absolute unknown. - to punish the virtues …is a central archetypical story found in christianity, for example, in which Christ is punished in the worst possible way for the highest posible virtues, thats why its archetypical there is nothing more unfair than that, its a sort of limit. - Because life is so difficult you have to do something that is truly worthwhile, in order to justify it. You have a ethical duty to straighten things up. - respect for yourself …you cannot have proper respect for yourself until you know you are a monster, because you won’t act carefully enough. The harm you do to people can come in many ways. Understand your shadow. - Jung believed that inside the shadow was the anima. It relates to the preference of the women for dangerous but tamed males. - learning …finding out something that you do wrong, something thats build into you like a character, presumption of your perception, or a deep habit, killing it, killing that part of your personality, suffering for it as you correct it, and become a new version of yourself. the phoenix. - mental disorders …these are not illnesses that have specific limits on the mind and life of the subject, they are usually embedded through out all across the individual’s life’s, so you can’t actually “clinically” remove it sort to speak. - categorization …one of the problems that come across clinical psychology or psychiatry as a science is that their categories are actually quite diverse, the problem is big because if the categories aren’t homogeneous then its very difficult to draw a conclusion about the members of the category. - perception …your value system determines the direction of your perception…you live within a framework of perception thats determined by your values because you look at what you want, you aim at what you want and once you aim the world lays itself out to you, and thats how perception works. - your value system is configured by mostly unconscious forces that you have little control over and determines your attention and focus. - The Ecological Approach To Visual Perception (James J. Gibson) …when people took at the world they see value first and inferred object second. - truth …there is not one way of defining truth thats appropriate, the definition of truth might be more like a tool, and as tool using creatures really what we are trying to do with our conceptions of truth is to work trough the world, successfully. The darwinian idea of truth is that our notions about the world have evolved trough a darwinian process and that its appropriate for us to regard as what is most real those things that reliably ensure the continuation of our lives and the probability of propagation. - archetype/to be human is to participate in a certain pattern of being …that pattern is acted out socially, individually and is also part of your structure, even your perceptual structure as a living organism of your particular type. - culture …set of value laden presuppositions that you orient yourself in the world that MATCH the set of value laden presuppositions that everyone in your culture has and acts out. Is that match that regulate your emotions, is not the belief system, is the match/cultural identity. - serotonin …it tunes your nervous system, when you are at the top of a dominance hierarchy your serotonin levels rise which means that happy things make you happier and sad things make you less sad, so if your at the bottom of the dominance hierarchy hardly anything makes you happy, and everything makes you nervous. - society …the societal structure, which is an elaborate dominance hierarchy, regulates your emotions because the match of your expectations and the behaviours of the people within that structure, and your position within that hierarchy regulates the ratio and intensity of your positive and negative emotions - falling into chaos …it is not just anxiety, when you fall into chaos, you fall into a state where nothing is certain, the way you construe the world isn’t certain and even the way the world is isn’t certain because you don’t know how to act or your actions aren’t working and so the world is presenting itself as something that is chaotic, is not just psychological, the chaos is a weird intermingling of the chaotic world (“real” chaos) and the chaotic self (psychological chaos), those two things con spiral …the distinction between the psyche and the world is quite arbitrary. - ej. a person gets fired, this is devastating, this is falling into chaos, psychological speaking you are disrupted and realistically speaking the person is unemployed that makes the world far more incomprehensible and uncertain. - Thomas Szasz - The Myth Of Mental Illness …most people have problems in living, not psychological problems - dimensions to live well …operating reasonable well in at least half of these dimensions will psychologically thrive you, motivate you. - schedule - plan - career - productive time - regulate use of drugs - family - language …there is a meaning network outside of language, and its what language is grounded in and that is this pre verbal comprehension of the world, its an embodied comprehension of the world. - environment/social cognitive architecture …your environment is not nature, is culture, is other people. Your fundamental architecture is social cognitive, you tend to view the world as if it is personified. This is specially because the world in which you emerged as a being was primarily social, what you needed to know is “who is the big primate? who is the little primate? who is related to who?”. - ej. if a big chimp bullies a little chimp he can tear him apart. but if the little chimp is associated with bigger chimps, the little chimp can bully the big chimp, big chimp won’t mess with him. This is because the nervous system of he big chimp doesn’t respond to the little chimp as just little, but a little chimp attached to some big monsters. - The nervous system responds to the network around the chimp. This is a kind of platform that constitutes the evolutionary underpinnings of your psyche. This means we actually dont care too much about what our “world/nature” looks like, but the relationships between beings, the social cognitive architecture. - super ego …internalised representation of the judgemental father, society. - you can’t use science as a guide of behaviour, you use instinct manifested in imagination and the evolved structure of your organic culture (dominance hierarchy/emotions/feelings) - universals … social world, natural world, the individual culture, nature , you the known, the unknown, you father, mother , you

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[@tomatoisasquishyfruit]

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... while also drinking a "Canada Dry" at the University of Toronto. Brilliant. ;)

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It sounds perfect here, to those who're able to comprehend what he's trying to put forth

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none of us have, that is why we are here

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"Because life is difficult, you have to do something truly worthwhile in order to justify." great.

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[@corbinshea5734]

Hes a paradox

[@disha2932]

My timestamps. So that I can come back and refer only a particular part of the lecture. 1:55 Inexhaustible 4:50 Movies 6:35 Grasping as a whole 9:20 Music 11:09 Original Greeks laid the groundwork of imperial science Till 13:53 how to conduct oneself, conversations 14:30 Religious texts and myths are the outer perimeter of our society 18:00 to 20:07 You are a social creature and you have to conduct yourself as per sophisticated rulea 21:30 The more corrupt a culture is the less trust is possible between individuals 22:45 Why do I oppose corruption? 25:31 The water is often the symbol for the unconscious 26:32 Procrastinate 28:47 The whale/dragon 32:30 dark place. (I've been there, terrible place to be) 34:35 How to apply psychotherapy, eg grounded in fear 37:25 , 41:04 , 43:00 , 51:05 , 56:20 Harry Potter 39:29 Humanities, culture, 2 sets of parents 41:34 Yungian idea shadow 42:25 What happens if you regard yourself as harmless 44:30 About chaos underneath the surface 50:00 Making sense of art, music, dance, mythology, religion, etc 51:30 Phoenix, transformation 54:00 Learning 54:45 The person who comes out the other end might hardly be the same at all 57:10 Science is about what the world is. Factual. And the myth, drama, dream, artistic side are Abstractions 58:27 Ethics and Morality 59:00 Mental disorders 1:01:00 Aim at how life would like if it were better 1:01:45 Categorisation 1:05:00 Categories aren't homogeneous 1:06:20 We look at the world from a framework of reference 1:07:43 Your value system determines the direction of your perception ( a Buddhist idea ) (Something similar that blew my mind in the Haemin Sunim Book) 1:10:00 So hard to focus when to try to pay attention/set a goal and sticking to it. Freudian idea about multiple personalities and ego. 1:11:35 Obstacles also take the plan down (so true man)

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Damn. You just explained exactly what watching these lectures is like. What a weird feeling.

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[@bhutrandom6269]

I'm from South Africa and this guy's classes are amazing. They've helped me a lot. All these students have the privilege of seeing him live and they arrive late. The total lack of respect.

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[@wowser44]

Listen to good ole Manly P Hall, you won’t be disappointed. I believe Sir Peterson got the torch where Manly left off. RIP MPH

[@okami425]

@@wowser44 I’ll have to find him. Give him a listen. Thanks.

[@rmk_online]

"Nature, culture and the individual - all have negative and positive elements. Anyone who tells you half of the story is lying!" What a great end to this great lecture?!

[@MrFrank107]

This level of wisdom is beyond academia.

[@wowser44]

Yup, listen to good ole Manly P Hall, you would agree as well. Rip MPH 🙏🏼

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I'm getting a world class education for free. Thank you JBP! I am truly grateful.

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Hey what's the name of the neuroscienctist. Izhaniga or something??

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"...thats why you're on facebook all the time" [student suddenly sits up while simultaneously shutting laptop, then realises that it wasn't directed at her]

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Timestamp?

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01:21:04

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@@jcmick8430 then where?

[@Batator666]

47:51 "God only knows why." *Proceeds to explain why.

[@MrJas321]

😂

[@islander376]

Therefore I Am God

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@@rogomerlinthegamer8305 I guess God is more like an idea than entity.. Your God might be Dumbledore or your dad and my god might be Krishna or Jesus.. But I understand your point..

[@kylepfeifer6576]

@@rogomerlinthegamer8305 Two things. 1. It's not proper epistemology to apply sociology to a metaphysical question. Different fields of thought can enlighten each other, but they can only be settled by methods proper to each field. And 2. Not all Christians are fundamentalists or presuppositionalists. I.e, the Bible or bare Faith isn't our only resource. There is a rich tradition, older the Protestantism, which incorporates the reasoned insights from pagans like Plato and Aristotle, Muslim philosophers like Avicenna, etc...All religions are groping after the same thing. (We argue that our religion is MORE correct; but, for instance, a Muslim is truly correct when he describes God's attributes. He's not worshipping "another god"--he's truly grasping towards the One God.)

[@deebonash4487]

@@rogomerlinthegamer8305 if the God of the Bible doesn’t exist which his claims are grounded in history. Then morality becomes subjective and rape and murder become opinions. There is no right and wrong it’s all subjective thus anything SO CALLED Evil has no standard of Good to be compared to. Just flawed immorally imperfect humans that somehow came from an explosion of nothing, thus are worth NOTHING

[@aspassiaman9081]

Peterson is really doing his homework and then comes to class. What an honour for the students to see that someone is focused so much on ther benefit, someone respects them so much as humans who want to learn. He is teaching "do your duty and be conscious" and he is giving them a perfect exemple through his behavior. Well done mr Peterson.

[@islander376]

I sometimes wonder how I'd react to JP's full prolonged stare when he pauses to lecture directly to certain students. I'd don't think I'd be able to withstand the wisdom and intellect directed full force at my eyeballs

[@metacafekid]

This is so true i laughed out loud

[@VanshikaGulati]

"You won't line up two hours to see a lecture..." I think that depends on what the lecture is. How many people would stand in a lime for two hours for Dr. Peterson's lectures?

[@quito85869]

I don't think I could fit in a lime

[@shivanshtyagi3254]

I certainly would

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What about a lemon?

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@@Apollothecrowing saved by the buoyancy of citrus

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I

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I could only imagine.

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DM?

[@Tyler_Lalonde-]

Mason Andrus Dungeon Master.

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He would play the wise old man and advise young knights through perilous journeys into dark labyrinths

[@TheModernHermeticist]

I turn my bag of holding inside out, wrap myself in it, and walk through the dungeon wall...

[@OrphanRed]

I looked up Camille Paglia, because you mentioned her here in passing. Thank you for inviting us to discover this powerful thinker! She's brilliant and I'm loving her content!

[@OrphanRed]

I wholeheartedly agree!

[@jasonfleenor]

Orphan Red you agree with yourself? Lol

[@crippleized]

She and jordan spoke with each other, you should look into it :)

[@MrJas321]

I came across her about 8 years ago and loved her work, then found Peterson a few weeks ago. I was quite tickled when he first referred to her in a video I was watching; it's great when people you like turn out to like each other.

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Holy shit i was just watching a terence mckenna lecture mentioning her book and then i literally come here and see this comment wow

[@bridge12582]

A bean bag is a chair, and a stump is a chair, and they don't chair much in common

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Ryan Dodson nice.

[@garryshenton2780]

the bean bag is just bean bag you sit on no legs the chair has 4 legs and a back stump is just something you can sit on but has no legs or back like a chair

[@SirButterDoob]

garry shenton so what you’re saying is a stump and a rock are the the same thing

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Budum diss

[@sheepgray08]

This wwas such a good one 😂

[@Themultimediaguy]

"You need meaning in your life because life is hard." 26:00

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This series is amazing

[@DoubleDutchCookie]

Imagine over one million people voluntarily watching a free lecture that you would have to pay an arm and a leg to a college to get this there. let alone the entire course. Craziness.

[@TFBCountryBoy]

God, if I'd had this information when I was in high school, or even in college... I'd have been unstoppable

[@alexzanderroberts995]

Or you would cast it off until your guidance structure failed and you would need a new one.

[@kylerk343]

It’s never too late

[@joshnic6639]

Same! How old are you now? I’m 42 and will have an associates degree after next semester.

[@apawinmyface]

“All ideals are oppressive” Wow, something really snapped together after hearing that.

[@mattwhite1169]

The reason I think Jordan Peterson is so popular, is because his answer to anything seems to always start with "It depends...". People that insist on a simple answer to a question have a narrow view of the world. It's boring. Peterson's approach is very adventurous and curious. Even when he is talking about something that he has talked about before I can tell he is thinking about it as if it were somewhat of a new topic of conversation. There will forever be more to be discovered. To be learned. I love that. It's very humble.

[@wannabeentrepreneur7873]

I’m always amazed by Jordan’s rhetoric skills. His eloquence, his voice, his gesture. He’s great to learn from. I really want to talk like that some day.

[@jamesvotava7709]

Jordan Peterson may be the best speaker in terms of arrangement ever.

[@Chris-gd2qp]

Augmenting my expensive graduate education in Clinical Psychology with these free lectures - so far Dr. Peterson has provided far more value.

[@articuluent]

He comes alive on the platform. It’s like he’s having a conversation rather than teaching and I’m eavesdropping. 😀

[@muhammadsohail7638]

This man is damm smart.He combine philosphy,religion and science in a very effective way and teaches us how to act and conduct ourselves in life.

[@ladyfaye8248]

8 am, with my cuppa, first thing I do is watch the next lecture here ! I am 68 and still learning, and certainly happy to have found Jordon Peterson !

[@umerghaffar4686]

I am a fan from Pakistan 🇵🇰 and his lectures are changing my life. میں پاکستان سے ہوں اور اُس کے سبق میری زندگی تبدیل کررہیں ہیں۔

[@Hanhanhanhanhanw]

Thanks Mr Peterson, you're having a positive influence on my life atm 👍🏻👍🏻 keep her lit sir 🙏🏻 🇮🇪 🇮🇪

[@MrGOTAMA420]

fuckin ditto

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Yeoo!

[@colematthews7535]

*relatable conglomeration of phrases insinuating regular ingestion of cannabis concurrent with lectures conducted by Dr. Peterson*

[@Red171]

Magnifikano yeeeeooo keep her lit sir and\or country !!

[@accueiltempsesame8793]

basarde

[@pjmclach]

Wow. I've never been so interested in the 'humanities' before

[@wowser44]

Listen to good ole Manly P Hall, you won’t be disappointed. I believe Sir Peterson got the torch where Manly left off. RIP MPH

[@nuttymcsquirrel]

I keep pausing every couple minutes to write notes on everything that blows my mind

[@iRodriguez972]

Found these lectures during the pandemic, it’s not so bad anymore. The fact that this is free is mind boggling.

[@Matheusedu1]

Yeah it just blows me away

[@sonampalmo3578]

Dr Peterson, I am loving this series of lectures. Very generous of you to make them available. Your heart and mind are a world treasure.

[@mindyschaper]

This man is a genius.

[@masterbuilder6334]

"'i'm going to quit eating sugar for a month!' How long does that last?" For me. A month. The hardest month of my life. :(

[@pixieseyz]

Good work! that shiz is addictive like cigs.

[@elizabethsmusicandarts1590]

.... I quit white sugar for 2 years. Only sugars were fruits etc., or in the second year, organic or low-processed sugar I cooked with... I meant it!

[@charlesrump5771]

Master Builder I did it for a month. I had some obviously. I just did'nt go above 36 grams.

[@moffig1]

Just force yourself to do it for like 6 months. Afterwards it will have become a habit and you wont struggle resisting sugar anymore. Its worth it but very hard in the beginning. I did it and after 2-3 years of trying I succeeded. Im a complete failure, pathetic, shy, socially inept with women and insecure. But I fixed my diet and eat really healthy now. I eat no products with added sugar, softdrinks, processed sweets/candy etc. anymore. Id say around at least 90% of what I eat are basics like rice, quinoa, sweet potatoes, sorghum, beans, chickpeas, lentils, fresh vegetables and fruits, water and unsweetened herb tea, nuts and seeds. My skin cleared up a lot (I sometimes got pimples despite being in my 20s), I have more energy and feel calmer and more at ease internally. I have a more lean and fit body, even though I dont exercise much (though I want to change that and workout more). These are just some of the benefits. At least I fixed this dimension of my life. Eating better. It gives me motivation and hope that I can also fix, or at least improve, other dimensions of my life as well. My next goal is to become more industrious and productive. Its possible dude. But the beginning is always the hardest. Its not easy. Its hard changing your life. Dont give up. Just try again. Sounds probably ridiculous coming from someone who only managed to improve his diet but yea. Maybe someone gets inspired or motivated when they read this. Positive longterm change is seriously possible if you just seriously try and stick with it for long enough (Id say 6 months at least).

[@TheJ3llyboy]

I miss my son. I finally did the dishes. And I'm going to try to wake up in the morning and go to work. Made myself something to eat tonight. Starting small, but I can see the dragon, building up the strength to it. Small victories. Small victories, friends.

[@WilliamCooper2005]

I'd certainly queue up for three hours to see a Dr Peterson lecture!

[@tolkarius58]

The Dragon who represents the monster in the Chaos and Chaos itself like "Virgins" i think because virgins are without "experience". And chaos consumes the unexperienced

[@ssamiuddin1]

A really neat point here. Thanks!

[@TheClassicWorld]

Unclear if that's why. I actually don't think that's true at all. Doesn't have anything to do with the woman's experience; instead, it has more to do with their social standing, which is to say, how ideal they are to the male/hero. You have way too much of a modernist framework here. In terms of the morality, personality, and otherwise, it's more to do with purity and value, as would naturally seem to be the case (as work by Jon Haidt actually proves about many people at the level of emotion/morality). Nothing more pure and valuable to a male human than a beautiful, young, virgin female -- so, that's why they are taken by the dragon, and the hero must save her. It may also be a case of winning her as a wife as a result, which was common back then in male-male fights to the death as to win the hand of the Queen, Princess, or such of the ilk in marriage (meaning, she would choose the winner). So, it's kind of the journey to winning a woman's attention/getting a wife, just at a more dramatic level than is normally the case. Since most women who have had sex before have a husband already (let's say, circa 1550 AD, for the sake of argument), then you cannot win her if this is the case, which means it makes zero sense to save a non-virgin woman (meaning, a married woman) since you don't actually win anything unless it's for the sake of saving the whole village, which sometimes happens. On top of this, there are really only two types of women who are not virgins and not beautiful and not pure and not as valuable to the man/hero: hookers and working-class, poor, ugly women (with a lot of overlap between the two). It doesn't make much sense to slay the dragon and save the working-class, poor, ugly girl. Why would you want that instead of a beautiful, young virgin? -- Where, a sense of middle-class/upper-class or such of the ilk is built into the narrative itself. This is the ideal 'save-the-girl' story, after all, so it makes sense that she would be ideal in nature. It's an archetype. Likewise, nobody wants a hooker (well, some men do, but those men are corrupt). That's why it's archetypical and universal: it applies to everybody. That's why it's 'virgin'. 'Save the virgin' sounds a bit better than, 'save Dave's wife'. Like, what, why? Why isn't Dave saving Dave's wife? What do I win if I save Dave's wife? Will Dave be mad at me if I save Dave's wife? Do I have to share Dave's wife if I save her? Will the King punish or reward me for saving Dave's wife? It kind of kills the whole concept when you have to answer all those questions right before slaying the dragon and saving the girl...

[@mountainmateen0_o]

@YamFestival reminds me of spirited away

[@iamripoff]

I love how he is so okay with the silence.

[@jeremyesser797]

It is very en-heartening to see such a "good" lecture be watched be nearly 400k viewers. There's a lot of things that can get you feeling completely hopeless - especially in this day and age. To see a large amount of people actually listening to a 2 hour video is evidence of optimism in the face of pessimism and nihilism. And JP is the only one I've seen that can actually manage that. It will be a dark day when this guy leaves us, for sure.

[@willnagy3448]

Not really, unless his teachings go unheeded.

[@eyesofthecervino3366]

I read that as un-heartening. . . . Had to read it at least two more times.

[@yourpersonalmythology]

Found this during COVID-19. Thank you! I do hope he's continuing to improve in health.

[@rockym.g.3827]

Well, welcome to the alt-right then 😁

[@enabler2456]

@@rockym.g.3827 Can you quote Peterson saying he's right wing?

[@rockym.g.3827]

@@enabler2456 dude that was 2nd degree cmon

[@enabler2456]

@@rockym.g.3827 Well, alt-right can be a lot of things, so I was genuinely curious lol

[@rockym.g.3827]

@@enabler2456 oh well I was just imitating the idiots who like to caricature everyone who doesn't think like them

[@milseq]

I'm an enginnering student yet I enjoy these lectures way more than the ones I have at UNI.

[@DagothUr72]

I swear I think I've listened to every video lecture by this man 3 or 4 times over the last five years.

[@ilovegoats3851]

I would camp overnight to wait in line to go to a Jordan Peterson lecture!

[@BjornHegstad]

The gem that I take with me from this lecture the most, which seems to summarize this whole lecture, is this: "To be human is to participate in a certain pattern of being. That pattern of being is acted out socially, it is acted out individually, but it is also part of your structure, even your perceptual structure, as a living organism of your particular type. And it would be the case at least in part, in the hero myth, which is: go out where no one has gone before, face the terrors of the unknown, gather something of value, and return; is the central story of humankind[...]. Many of the dramas that you engage yourself in are variations of that story, and you watch it over and over and over, because you are trying to learn how to do that. Because that's what you need to do to live."

[@Indylimburg]

It's so cool that JP had the foresight to record these lectures! Such a treasure, especially considering he's not teaching anymore.

[@freddieclark8463]

Watching Dr. Peterson somehow fills me with a sense of comfort that I don't get anywhere else

[@Sifupaulresnick]

When watching these lectures the only thing that I regret is that I didn't see them earlier in life. There is no equal to Dr. Jordan Peterson.

[@colunizator]

I'm 30, all my life I studied numbers, engineering, information, chemistry, physics. I never liked or understood art, religion, literature (maybe even myself) until I met this guy. I understood that I like psychology and would like to know more about it

[@thereisnosanctuary6184]

Mihail Colun The ultimate machine and computer is mankind. And it is programmed with Random Mode.

[@girl.gone.fishing]

In my perfect world I would be a student sitting in this class! What a privilege to have access to this course! South Africa is seriously lacking in proper psychology in universities. Thank you Dr Peterson! Your insight is totally eye opening!

[@Mikk0Ray]

Hello, from 2023! These lectures will live on forever.

[@bijanshadnia3620]

the relationship to stories/movies and the development of high end graphics processing chips blows my mind Dr. Peterson please get better the world needs you

[@the14451the]

These lectures will continue through time thank you Dr Peterson

[@user-zd4pb2ts6g]

- dude, what are u doing? - i'm just trying to understand wolves.

[@alexzanderroberts995]

"Continues sniff the person's butt"

[@mikepawlikguitar]

Ever notice how the Jordan Peterson community and the comment section are some of the cleanest, most respectful of all the internet? I'm proud of you guys 🤗

[@KabooM1067]

1:20:10 "We live in a society, and it's a very deep idea." JP confirms that meme accidentally unironically woke.

[@matiaslangon6799]

Damn I was about to comment this, I'm 2 years later

[@sodiumchloride8273]

thanks to me you now have 69 likes, you welcome

[@KabooM1067]

@@sodiumchloride8273 thanks b0ss much appreciate

[@wurfwrench1692]

The common sense gets me, but uff with all that wisdom, am listening to it again and again. Thank you!

[@michaelwalecki3714]

"YUP! Alright! Good enough! I'll see you next time!" LOL. I love how abruptly the first class finishes.

[@eugenisgaztambide187]

The magic he does with words... all his teachings...all here for free... at the distance of a click... we are living a wonderful time.

[@GuerillaUnderground]

This is the only comment that JP should really pay attention to- we have two modes of social regulatory self-control; what we are feeling and what we are seeing reflected in the other person’s eyes- this goes back to the knowledge of good and evil and the corresponding self-awareness that JP has correctly identified. A lot depends on the relative value that we give the reflected image of ourselves in the other person’s eyes; this is probably the most profound thought I will ever have and I thank JP from the bottom of my heathen/Buddhist heart for the gift of his impeccable work ethic and relentless efforts to impart the information that he has discovered.

[@krool1648]

He should talk about malignant narcissism, a very important topic.

[@mvwil]

u guys should read the last psychiatrist

[@BrettonFerguson]

Is having a heightened sense on entitlement a symptom of malignant narcissism?

[@krool1648]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder#Signs_and_symptoms

[@imamimemotherf6938]

Or just dig into Cluster B disorders in general.

[@jessicasimpson6091]

When they don’t get his humour. “If you were a lobster? Which would be quiet a shock to you if it happened.” Bahaha

[@mindstormzhub]

I have become completely and absolutely obsessed with Jordan Peterson content on KZbin. I feel more calm after listening to him speak every single time. ❤

[@furkankilinc9155]

All i can say is these lectures changes my life.

[@mandynicole5539]

I know I’ve watched too many of these when JP starts appearing in my dreams 😩

[@jcmick8430]

I had a dream he had a rest stop at my house for lunch while traveling. He was very grumpy and displeased with everything about his visit!

[@cheeseonhead]

@@jcmick8430 you must have not cleaned your room

[@shortyrock4lif3]

Thank you for uploading your lectures. They help me tremendously.

[@marcosrj21]

My main notes: 1 - The most difficult question is "how to live in the world". 2 - The purpose of the myths is to give you tips on how to live. 3 - Culture helps you to live in this world.

[@therealkbrackson]

I have been straightening myself out thanks to these lectures I am so grateful and hope to shake this man's hand one day but if not I hope whomever is reading this is convinced to watch a few, warning: may rock your worldview and change ur life

[@oliveiraluis3540]

"Nature kills you, culture keeps you alive." Man, thats something.

[@sadwingsraging3044]

Up until someone corrupts the culture. See his speech on Neitche.

[@oliveiraluis3540]

@@sadwingsraging3044 Not really. I know what my grandparents tought me and what my parents tought me. I dont care much about social media, and I do what I want to see acomplished. The rest is noise, I stopped paying attention to it. The internet is what it is, I learned that lesson. Some people get deceived by it, some dont. Most do, Im afraid.

[@sadwingsraging3044]

@@oliveiraluis3540 uh huh. I can assure you the fucking communist do not give a single damn about your plans just as they didn't give any thought for the plans and ideas of the over a hundred million dead they murdered.

[@nikierey8675]

Again. Thank you Dr. Jordan Peterson. I always feel so much better after listening.

[@JT-iw2cw]

The amount of information stacked into this small segment of time is absolutely staggering. If you are watching this and not having epiphany after epiphany, you're not paying enough attention. You're not processing it properly.

[@jacobestes6289]

jordan is my second dad

[@quito85869]

He's my third

[@JohnPaul-uv3dz]

A surrogate father to us all

[@Tortriroy]

Love my father. Dr. Peterson has taught me more than my father ever did. The problem is, i wish i had heard or have been able to understand this stuff before i had my own kids.

[@patmald]

Better than all my lectures I've had in all my university courses in Commiefornia

[@brianauld1492]

commiefornia - that's a new one to me - I like it.

[@claraquinrulez]

Is it really that bad?

[@HistoryOfSocialism]

As a communist, California isn't very communist at all. It's socially democratic at most (capitalism with some free stuff like Bernie Sanders)

[@konanhuet623]

for the average american that's probably commie

[@willnagy3448]

@@HistoryOfSocialism democratic socialism is fancy talk for communism. Those two words contradict reach other. Socialism is not democratic and clumping them together is just an oxymoron.

[@MushroomKingdom722]

I ❤️ college! Thanks Dr. Peterson

[@jasonosorio279]

I appreciate the existence of these lectures!

[@arthurtejada1008]

The information available at our fingertips is astonishing. It is a blessing and curse.

[@michaelharder9737]

The students showing up late don't know what they're doing. I wouldn't miss a minute of these lectures, even more so if I had paid for them.

[@user-ju7ze9to4k]

Michael Harder their parents paid.

[@MechAdv]

@@user-ju7ze9to4k This is Canada, they’ll be paying for them via personal income taxes.

[@giin97]

42:30 Hmmm. Doctor Who, Demons Run: "I'm a good man? Good men don't have rules. Good men don't need them. You don't want to see why I have so many rules." Paraphrase.

[@msjwilde]

This lecture is more than 2 hours and I couldn’t stop listening. I wish I was in this class. Thank you, JBP! 🔥 🦁

[@davidpaceway]

I come back and watch these lectures and take away something new every time.

[@LexiUnicorn]

I'm so inspired to go to uni this year because of Dr Peterson, I have always been interested in psychology. But the ability to watch these lectures has cemented it for me, that this is what I should be doing with my life. The only shame is I'm in the uk. If I was in Canada I would be in his classroom in a heartbeat!

[@TheAcad3mic]

I love that this is over 2 hours of lecture in this day and age and it has over half a million views.

[@mths50]

Thanks Professor, from Brazil!

[@hello-mynameis]

Thank you so much! This is like being back at university with my favourite professors. My son introduced you to me - Thank you for offering this to all of us...