Maps of Meaning, Jordan B. Peterson
Maps of Meaning, Jordan B. Peterson
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Maps of Meaning
The Architecture of Belief

Author: Jordan B. Peterson

Narrator: Jordan B. Peterson

Unabridged: 30 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/12/2018

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

Jordan B. Peterson's Maps of Meaning is now available for the first time as an audio download!

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 of Meaning presents a rich theory that makes the wisdom and meaning of myth accessible to the critical modern mind.

Includes a PDF of Images from the Book.

About The Author

JORDAN B. PETERSON is a Canadian clinical psychologist, self-help writer, cultural critic, and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. His main areas of study are in abnormal, social, and personality psychology, with a particular interest in the psychology of religious and ideological belief, and the assessment and improvement of personality and performance.Peterson grew up in Fairview, Alberta. He earned a B.A. degree in political science in 1982 and a degree in psychology in 1984, both from the University of Alberta, and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from McGill University in 1991. He remained at McGill as a post-doctoral fellow for two years before moving to Massachusetts, where he worked as an assistant and an associate professor in the psychology department at Harvard University. In 1998, he moved to the University of Toronto as a full professor. He authored Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief in 1999, a work in which examined several academic fields to describe the structure of systems of beliefs and myths, their role in the regulation of emotion, creation of meaning, and motivation for genocide.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Reginald on June 12, 2017

In Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief, Jordan Peterson attempts to explain the neuropsychological, phenomenological, and behavioral basis of mythological imagery while trying to encourage the reader towards the behavioral path of “heroic” exploration. Peterson argues that the empirical world......more

Goodreads review by David on October 27, 2014

A few weeks ago my three year old daughter and I went to the library to check out some books. Usually she heads right to the section with Curious George while I peruse the kids books, looking for new and fun stories. Lately she’s been randomly grabbing books off the shelf and declaring she wants the......more

Goodreads review by Aaron on July 17, 2018

Jordan Peterson is obviously not an idiot. But he continuously repeats himself like one. He doesn't need as many words as he uses. People seem intimidated by the length of the book, and literally say, "It can't be summarized". Here's a summary: Humans are animals, and animals have systems that help t......more

Goodreads review by Scriptor Ignotus on December 13, 2017

When I first discovered Jordan Peterson last summer, some months before his embroilment in the political controversy at the University of Toronto which made him a folk hero among the liberal right, I was first struck by some of the similarities between his intellectual journey, as he describes it, a......more

Goodreads review by Morgan on September 19, 2022

STRONG DISCLAIMER: I am a committed (life long) LGBTQ+ ally. My parents were Marxist revolutionaries in the 1960’s. I have leftist, progressive politics. I am an atheist (little “a” type) but still. I’m clarifying all of this, because I’m about to write a glowing review of a book by Jordan Peterson. Hear......more

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