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? 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. A cutting-edge work that brings together neuropsychology, cognitive science, and Freudian and Jungian approaches to mythology and narrative, Maps ofMeaning presents a rich theory that makes the wisdom and meaning of myth accessible to the critical modern mind.
Les mer
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.
Les mer
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
Les mer
"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 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
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780415922210
Publisert
1999-04-12
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
1120 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
178 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
564

Forfatter

Biographical note

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.