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Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning: Context and Background

Jordan B Peterson · Lecture · YouTube title: Lecture: 2017 Maps of Meaning 01: Context and Background
Why it's here

Several HN commenters credit the lecture series with helping them through depression or personal collapse and recommend it as long-form learning.

What it covers

The first lecture of Jordan Peterson's 2017 Maps of Meaning course, setting out the Cold War context for his theory of belief and culture. He introduces the narrative structure of culture and archetypal characters for the individual, the known and the unknown.