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MAPS OF MEANINGMAPS OF MEANING The Architecture of Belief JORDAN B. PETERSON ROUTLEDGE New York and LondonPublished in 1999 by Routledge 29 West 35th St. New York, NY 10001 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002. Published in Great Britain by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane London EC4P 4EE Copyright © 1999 by Routledge All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopy ing and recording or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data. Peterson, Jordan B. Maps of meaning: the architecture of belief/Jordan B.Peterson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-415-92221-6 (hardcover).—ISBN 0-415-92222-4 (pbk.) 1. Archetype (Psychology) 2. Meaning (Psychology) I. Title. BF175.5.A72P48 1999 150′.1-dc21 98-37486 CIPISBN 0-203-90285-8 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-90286-6 (OEB Format) ISBN 0-415-92221-6 (Print Edition)1 2 3 4 5 CONTENTS PREFACE Descensus ad Inferos Maps of Experience: Object and Meaning Maps of Meaning: Three Levels of Analysis Apprenticeship and Enculturation: Adoption of a Shared Map The Appearance of Anomaly: Challenge to the Shared Map The Hostile Brothers: Archetypes of Response to the Unknown Conclusion: The Divinity of Interest Notes References Permissions Index1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 FIGURES The Domain and Constituent Elements of the Known The Metamythological Cycle of the Way Normal Life Revolutionary Adaptation The Ambivalent Nature of Novelty Emergence of “Normal Novelty” in the Course of GoalDirected Behavior Emergence of “Revolutionary Novelty” in the Course of Goal-Directed Behavior The Motor and Sensory Units of the Brain The Regeneration of Stability from the Domain of Chaos The Motor Homunculus The Twin Cerebral Hemispheres and Their Functions The Multiple Structure of Memory Abstraction of Wisdom, and the Relationship of Such Abstraction to Memory Conceptual Transformation of the Means/Ends Relationship from Static to Dynamic Bounded Revolution Nested Stories, Processes of Generation, and Multiple Memory Systems The Constituent Elements of Experience The Positive Constituent Elements of Experience, Personified19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 The Birth of the World of Gods The “Death” of Apsu, and the (Re)Emergence of Tiamat as Threat “World” of Gods: Hierarchical Organization The Enuma elish in Schematic Representation The Battle Between Osiris and Seth in the Domain of Order The Involuntary Descent and Disintegration of Osiris The Birth and Return of Horus, Divine Son of Order and Chaos Voluntary Encounter with the Underworld Ascent, and Reintegration of the Father The Constituent Elements of Experience as Personality, Territory and Process The Uroboros—Precosmogonic Dragon of Chaos The Birth of the World Parents The Constituent Elements of the World, in Dynamic Relationship Novelty, the Great Mother, as Daughter of the Uroboros The Spontaneous Personification of Unexplored Territory Unexplored Territory as Destructive Mother Unexplored Territory as Creative Mother The “Heavenly Genealogy” of the Destructive and Creative Mothers The Exploratory Hero as Son of the Heavenly Mother The Metamythology of the Way, Revisited Castle, Hero, Serpent and Virgin: St. George and the Dragon40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 The Process of Exploration and Update, as the Meta-Goal of Existence Order, the Great Father, as Son of the Uroboros Explored Territory as Orderly, Protective Father Explored Territory as Tyrannical Father The “Heavenly Genealogy” of the Tyrannical and Protective Fathers The Exploratory Hero as Son of the Great Father The “Death” and “Rebirth” of the Adolescent Initiate The Paradigmatic Structure of the Known The Known: Nested Groups and Individuals The Fragmentary Representation of “Procedure and Custom” in Image and Word The “Dual Death” of the Revolutionary Hero The Crucified Redeemer as Dragon of Chaos and Transformation The Socially Destructive and Redemptive “Journey” of the Revolutionary Hero The (Voluntary) Descent of the Buddha The World-Tree as Bridge Between “Heaven” and “Hell” The World-Tree and the Constituent Elements of Experience Genesis and Descent The Devil as Aerial Spirit and Ungodly Intellect The Vicious Circle of the Adversary The Constituent Elements of Existence, Reprise The Emergence of Christ from Group Identity and Chaos World-Tree of Death and Redemption The Alchemical Opus as “Normal Story”