Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2024-01-15
Jordan Peterson & John Vervaeke: books mentioned on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast #414
Daemons, Demons, God, & the Meaning Crisis | Dr. John Vervaeke | EP 414
Jordan Peterson discussed Inferno by Dante Alighieri, MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE by Herman Melville, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, The red book = by Carl Gustav Jung, and The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn. John Vervaeke discussed The Republic.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Inferno
Inferno by Dante Alighieri is a classic epic poem describing a journey through the underworld and the various circles of hell.
Discussed“It parallels the notion in Dante's Inferno, right? Because Dante's Inferno is a set of concentric circles. Inferno. What's that? I'm reading the Inferno. Oh, okay.”
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MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville is an epic American novel that chronicles the obsessive, self-destructive quest of Captain Ahab to hunt down the giant white whale that maimed him.
Discussed“I've always been fascinated by that story. Of course Melville makes a lot of it in hope in Moby Dick.”
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Moby Dick
Moby Dick by Herman Melville is a classic 19th-century novel exploring the obsessions of Captain Ahab and the dramatic whaling voyage of the Pequod.
Discussed“I've always been fascinated by that story; of course, Melville makes a lot of it in Moby Dick. There's a moment in that story that I find particularly compelling, and one of the things I like about the Bible is it will have these little moments of very powerful humanity in the midst of wrestling with the numinous.”
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The red book =
The Red Book by Carl Gustav Jung is a monumental, hand-illustrated volume documenting the psychologist's profound explorations of his own unconscious mind through active imagination between 1913 and 1917.
Discussed“Have you read the red book? I've read parts of it because it's what you're talking about is quite reminiscent of what of the sorts of exercises that Yung over undertook.”
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The Republic
Plato's foundational classical text "The Republic" explores justice, political structures, and the nature of reality.
Discussed“For me, the Republic does this for me, Plato's Republic. I will read the Republic and it's inevitably transformative. There's a reciprocal opening. I see something in the text I haven't seen. It opens me up. I go into my life. My lo my life opens up. I'm transformed.”
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The Gulag Archipelago
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is a monumental historical exposé detailing the brutal Soviet forced labor camp system through survivor testimonies, archival research, and the author's own imprisonment.
Discussed“So Soljanitson talks in in the Gulag archipelago and I have to bring that up one once per podcast by necessity you know about these intellectuals who are in a camp being worked to death and they had a seminar that they would conduct once a week and they would all meet and they would talk about their specialty”
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