Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2022-12-15
Books mentioned on 314. Consciousness, Chaos and Order | Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris
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Robin Carhart-Harris discussed Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud. Jordan Peterson discussed The doors of perception by Aldous Huxley.
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Civilization and Its Discontents
Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents is a foundational psychoanalytic text exploring the inevitable friction between individual desires for freedom and the restrictive demands of civilized society.
Discussed“another possibility and this again you know I do have a fair bit of time for certain Freudian ideas and another one in relation to Depression was that it it um it's often repressed anger so rather than you know some social dilemma plays out and you get aggressive and you you do something dramatic you know you kill someone”
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The doors of perception
The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley is a classic philosophical essay chronicling the author's psychedelic experiences and exploring the nature of human consciousness.
Discussed“so when Huxley wrote about the Psychedelic experience in the doors of perception he referred to bergson who made the claim that in some real sense Consciousness was like a reducing valve”
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