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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 J Psychiatry
...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
–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 J Psychiatry
...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
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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 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.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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An Important Book,
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This review is from: Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (Paperback)
I'm in agreement with previous reviewers. This is an outstanding book and should be higher on Amazon's Sales Rank. The only problem is the writing style. Professor Peterson can write simple, clear prose, as shown at the beginning when describing his personal history. But the academic style in the rest of the book is harder to wade through. He constantly restates and rephrases his ideas, often in the same sentence. This academic prose is readable, but he should have stuck with the simpler style. You can say just as much that way, but to more readers.Also, some of the "insights" of neuropsychology are merely common sense. Do we really need Russian psychologists to tell us that we pay less attention to startling or threatening stimuli after they prove inoffensive? This book will appeal to NT types, in Meyers-Briggs parlance. It presents the big picture of human culture and behavior, but in analytic detail. Boy, does it present the big picture! Only cosmological theories get bigger than this. It is the kind of book than can change your world view. It did mine.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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pure genius,
By A Customer
This review is from: Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (Paperback)
I took Prof. Peterson's personality psychology class at Harvard, which incorporated many of the themes he explores in his book. It was the single most mind-blowing, life-changing course I have ever taken. Peterson is a rare genius.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Challenging and prolific.,
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This review is from: Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (Paperback)
In these days where the academic reinforcement schedule is such that reward comes from knowing more and more about less and less, it is wonderful to see someone tackle the big problems in a grand theory - and Jordan Peterson does address some big problems. He aims his analytical lens at the motivational and behavioral dynamics behind evil and meaning. These issues seem to be most often addressed by theogians whose presuppositions are difficult for a rational person to digest whole, or by New Age fuzzy thinkers. This book is most definitely not New Age (Joe Campbellites beware - meaning is not simple bliss!) in its hard look at what mythic narrative, as a phenomenon devoted to motivation and behavior, is about and what it can tell us today. I found the book taught me lessons in the neuropsychology of emotion, moral philosophy, and the deep structure of mythic narrative - and weaved these disparate fields into a coherent, powerful tool of interpretation (which is what a good theory should be). Undoubtedly there are weaknesses in Jordan's understanding of each of these individual fields, but his synthesis is pretty interesting, at worst, and profound, at best. This is a challenging read, both in the scope and difficulty of the material and in the way your thinking about your self and the world is challenged. For those with a good attention span and a synthetic curiosity about the world, I would recommend this book highly.
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