Lectures

2017 Personality Lectures

These lectures are available as a YouTube playlist

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Feb 7th, 2017 Lecture 8: Carl Jung & the Lion King (Part 2) Dr. Peterson finishes his analysis of Disney's Lion King, which provides a dramatic representation of many of the archetypes identified and analyzed by Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, student of Nietzsche and Freud, and originator of analytical psychology.
Mar 11th, 2017 Lecture 13: Existentialism via Solzhenitsyn and the Gulag (1 hr 41 mins) Dr Peterson explores the dreadful socio-political consequences of the individual inauthentic life: the degeneration of society into nihilism or totalitarianism.

2017 Bible Lectures

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Jun 20th, 2017 IV: Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death Dr Peterson turns his attention in this lecture to the older of the two creation accounts in Genesis: the story of Adam and Eve.
Jul 17th, 2017 VII: Walking with God: Noah & the Flood Life at the individual and the societal level is punctuated by crisis and catastrophe. This stark truth finds its narrative representation in the widely-distributed universal motif of the flood.

2017 Maps of Meaning Lectures

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Jan 16th, 2017 01: Context and Background What is belief? Why is it so important to people? Why will they fight to protect it?
March 13th, 2017 08: Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation Dr Peterson discusses the relationship between the basic categories of imagistic/symbolic representation and brain function.