Maps of meaning : The architecture of belief / Jordan B. Peterson. [print]

Maps of experience: object and meaning Maps of meaning: three levels of analysis Normal and revolutionary life: two prosaic stories Normal life Revolutionary life Neuropsychological function: the nature of the mind The valence of things Unexplored territory: Phenomenology and neuropschology Exploration: Phenomenology and neuropschology Explored territory: Phenomenology and neuropschology Mythological representation: the constituent elements of experience Introduction The enuma elish: a comprehensive exemplar of narrative categorization The dragon of primordial chaos The great mothers: images of the unknown, or explored territory process The great father: images of the know, or explored territory Apprenticeship and enculturation: adoption of a shared map The appearance of anomaly: challenge to the shared map Introduction: the paradigmatic structure of the known Particular forms of anomaly The strange The stranger The strange idea The revolutionary hero The rise of self-reference, and the permanent contamination of anomaly with death The hostile brothers: archetypes of response to the unknown Introduction: the hero and the adversary The adversary: emergence, development and representation The adversary in action: voluntary degradation of the map of meaning The adversary in action: a twentieth century allegory Heroic adaptation: voluntary reconstruction of the map of meaning The creative illness and the hero The alchemical procedure and the philosopher's stone Conclusion: the divinity of interest Introduction The divinity of interest.

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. Link to source of summary

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Jordan B. Peterson is a clinical psychologist and Professor at the University of Toronto and was formerly at Harvard University. He has published numerous articles on drug abuse, alcoholism and aggression.