Description: Maps of Meaning by Jordan B. Peterson From the author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos comes a provocative hypothesis that explores the connection between what modern neuropsychology tells us about the brain and what rituals, myths, and religious stories have long narrated. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Back Cover Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself? Jordan Peterson offers a provocative new hypothesis that explores the connection between what modern neuropsychology tells us about the brain and what rituals, myths, and religious stories have long narrated. A cutting-edge work that brings together neuropsychology, cognitive science, and Freudian and Jungian approaches to mythology and narrative, Maps of Meaning presents a rich theory that makes the wisdom and meaning of myth accessible to the critical modern mind. Author Biography 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. Table of Contents Preface: Descensus ad Inferos1. Maps of Experience: Object and Meaning2. Maps of Meaning: Three Levels of AnalysisNormal and RevolutionaryLife: Two Prosaic StoriesNeuropsychological Function:The Nature of the MindMythological Representation:TheConstitutent Elements of Experience3. Apprenticeship and Enculturation: Adoption of a Shared Map4. The Appearance of Anomaly: Challenge to the Shared MapIntroduction: The Paradigmatic Structure ofthe KnownParticular Forms of AnomalyThe Rise ofSelf-Reference, and the Permanent Contamination ofAnomaly with Death5. The Hostile Brothers: Archetypes of Response to the UnknownIntroduction:The Hero and the AdversaryThe Adversary: Emergence,Development and RepresentationHeroic Adaptation:Voluntary Reconstruction of the Map ofMeaningConclusion: The Divinity of Interest Review "The book reflects its authors 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 ones own maps of meaning. I plan to return to Petersons musings and mapping many times over the next few years." -- Am JPsychiatry"...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 Details ISBN0415922224 Short Title MAPS OF MEANING 2000 CORR 2ND Edition Description 2000. Corr. 2nd Language English ISBN-10 0415922224 ISBN-13 9780415922227 Media Book Format Paperback Illustrations Yes Year 1999 Imprint Routledge Subtitle The Architecture of Belief Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Author Jordan B. Peterson Pages 564 DOI 10.1604/9780415922227 AU Release Date 1999-03-24 NZ Release Date 1999-03-24 UK Release Date 1999-03-24 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Publication Date 1999-03-24 Alternative 9780367463151 DEWEY 153.4 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:135882867;
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ISBN-13: 9780415922227
Book Title: Maps of Meaning
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subject: Psychology, Mythology
Publication Year: 1999
Number of Pages: 564 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Maps of Meaning: the Architecture of Belief
Item Weight: 912 g
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Developmental Psychology, Biological Psychology
Author: Jordan B. Peterson
Format: Paperback