Maps of Meaning 12: Final: The Divinity of the Individual
Peterson reflects on the core problem he addressed in the class: why people cling to belief systems and even fight over them.
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Maps of Meaning 11: The Flood and the Tower
Peterson explores belief systems. They help people assign value and act in the world. Belief systems regulate emotions. They allow cooperation and competition without constant conflict.
Maps of Meaning 10: Genesis and the Buddha
Peterson examines why people defend belief systems fiercely. These systems guide action and value. They help people cooperate without conflict.
Maps of Meaning 09: Patterns of Symbolic Representation
Peterson discusses archetypes as universal patterns. They appear in myths, stories, and images. These patterns are deep. They come from human experience across time.
Maps of Meaning 08: Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation
Peterson explores what makes things most real. Real things last long across time. They appear in many situations. He rejects the idea that humans evolved only on the African veldt. Patterns from all evolutionary history shape people.
Maps of Meaning 07: Images of Story and Metastory
Peterson explores how basic categories frame the world. These categories appear first in images. They exist long before names or words.
Maps of Meaning 06: Story and Metastory (Part 2)
Peterson discusses the human struggle with complexity. Individual consciousness is limited. The world around and inside people is vast and hard to grasp.
Maps of Meaning 05: Story and Metastory (Part 1)
Peterson explains why people see so little of the world. The brain simplifies reality to help action.
Maps of Meaning 04: Marionettes & Individuals (Part 3)
Peterson completes the analysis of Disney's Pinocchio. He covers the final parts of the story.
Maps of Meaning 03: Marionettes & Individuals (Part 2)
Peterson continues the analysis of Disney's Pinocchio. He links the story to child development and morality. Good parenting lets a child's unique nature emerge.
Maps of Meaning 02: Marionettes & Individuals (Part 1)
This lecture is the second in the 2017 Maps of Meaning series. Peterson reviews ideas from the first lecture. He stresses that humans see the world through stories. These stories help solve the problem of how to act across time in social groups.
Maps of Meaning 01: Context and Background
Jordan Peterson opens this lecture with personal stories from the 1980s. He describes his fear of nuclear war during the Cold War. He recounts a visit to a decommissioned missile silo.