Maps of Meaning The Architecture of Belief

Name: Maps of Meaning The Architecture of Belief
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ISBN: 9780415922227

ISBN-10: 0415922224

ISBN-13: 9780415922227

Edition: 1999

Authors: Jordan B. Peterson

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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 the structure of the world itself?Maps of Meaningoffers 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. Drawing insights from the worlds of neuropsychology, cognitive science, and Freudian and Jungian approaches to mythology and narrative, Jordan B. Peterson argues that myths and religious stories have a structure determined by the nature of the mind, and play a key role in the regulation of…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/24/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 564
Size: 6.93" wide x 8.94" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 2.068
Language: English



Preface: Descensus ad Inferos



Maps of Experience: Object and Meaning



Maps of Meaning: Three Levels of Analysis


Normal and Revolutionary Life: Two Prosaic Stories


Neuropsychological Function: The Nature of the Mind


Mythological Representation: The Constitutent Elements of Experience



Apprenticeship and Enculturation: Adoption of a Shared Map



The Appearance of Anomaly: Challenge to the Shared


Map


Introduction: The Paradigmatic


Structure of the Known Particular Forms of Anomaly


The Rise of Self-Reference, and the Permanent


Contamination of Anomaly with Death



The Hostile Brothers: Archetypes of Response to the Unknown


Introduction: The Hero and the Adversary


The Adversary: Emergence Development and Representation


Heroic Adaptation: Voluntary Reconstruction of the Map of Meaning


Conclusion: The Divinity of Interest