The Lion King- Personality and Its Transformations (Jordan Peterson)
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2018 7:59 pm
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This is a lecture from Jordan Peterson's "Personality and Its Transformations" class at the University of Toronto. He walks through The Lion King, pointing out its relationship to archetypal themes developed by Carl Jung.
I watched the entire lecture series last summer, and it was like putting on glasses for the first time in the 5th grade. So much, from people's temperament to why crowds of people worldwide set up tents and camp out to watch stories like Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of The Rings, etc, became dramatically more clear.
I am way too stupid to accurately describe just how many knowledge ICBMs are launched from this guy's mouth, so I'll let his own quote do it:
"So here's Scar, and Scar is scarred. What that implies is that he had a rough life, and he's kind of skitty, and he's also hyper intelligent and rational. It's one of the things you commonly see in the evil adversary of the state or of the individual. Often intelligent and hyper-rational. The best commentator on that was probably John Milton in Paradise Lost, because that's how he represents Lucifer, or Satan, who is the spirit of rationality or enlightenment. Hence Lucifer, the spirit of light.
The reason for that, as far as I can tell, and this is something that Milton figured out when he compiled all these ancient stories about evil and tried to make them coherent was that, the problem with rationality is that it tends to fall in love with its own productions. It comes up with a theory and makes that a totality. It won't let it go. So the rational mind has a totalitarian element.
We know that to a degree because that kind of rationality seems more left hemisphere-focused, and the left hemisphere tends to impose structured order on the world, and be updated by the right hemisphere. And the right hemisphere generally updates it with negative information and with fantasy. And so the left hemisphere will impose a coherent structure on the world, which is necessary for you to live in it, but the problem is that there's a tension between coherence and completeness, and that's partly why you need two hemispheres. You need one to represent the world, and you need one to keep track of the exceptions, and to feed those slowly into the representational system, so it can stay updated without collapsing into complete chaos." DAMN!
This is a lecture from Jordan Peterson's "Personality and Its Transformations" class at the University of Toronto. He walks through The Lion King, pointing out its relationship to archetypal themes developed by Carl Jung.
I watched the entire lecture series last summer, and it was like putting on glasses for the first time in the 5th grade. So much, from people's temperament to why crowds of people worldwide set up tents and camp out to watch stories like Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of The Rings, etc, became dramatically more clear.
I am way too stupid to accurately describe just how many knowledge ICBMs are launched from this guy's mouth, so I'll let his own quote do it:
"So here's Scar, and Scar is scarred. What that implies is that he had a rough life, and he's kind of skitty, and he's also hyper intelligent and rational. It's one of the things you commonly see in the evil adversary of the state or of the individual. Often intelligent and hyper-rational. The best commentator on that was probably John Milton in Paradise Lost, because that's how he represents Lucifer, or Satan, who is the spirit of rationality or enlightenment. Hence Lucifer, the spirit of light.
The reason for that, as far as I can tell, and this is something that Milton figured out when he compiled all these ancient stories about evil and tried to make them coherent was that, the problem with rationality is that it tends to fall in love with its own productions. It comes up with a theory and makes that a totality. It won't let it go. So the rational mind has a totalitarian element.
We know that to a degree because that kind of rationality seems more left hemisphere-focused, and the left hemisphere tends to impose structured order on the world, and be updated by the right hemisphere. And the right hemisphere generally updates it with negative information and with fantasy. And so the left hemisphere will impose a coherent structure on the world, which is necessary for you to live in it, but the problem is that there's a tension between coherence and completeness, and that's partly why you need two hemispheres. You need one to represent the world, and you need one to keep track of the exceptions, and to feed those slowly into the representational system, so it can stay updated without collapsing into complete chaos." DAMN!