Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2022-01-13
Books mentioned on 217. Talking with Russians | Mikhail Avdeev
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Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Origins and History of Consciousness
The Origins and History of Consciousness by Erich Neumann is a profound psychological and mythological study that explores the historical evolution of human awareness through archetypal symbolism.
Recommended“the origins and history of consciousness is a remarkable book and and so is the great mother and he in some sense he provides a well an overview and summary of jung's thinking which you couldn't get unless you read like 20 volumes of jung it's all packed into those two volumes origins origins and history of consciousness and the”
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The Great Mother
The Great Mother by Erich Neumann is a profound psychological study exploring the symbolism of the feminine and the historical development of human consciousness through archetypes.
Recommended“and and so is the great mother and he in some sense he provides a well an overview and summary of jung's thinking which you couldn't get unless you read like 20 volumes of jung it's all packed into those two volumes origins origins and history of consciousness and the great mother”
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History of Religious Ideas
History of Religious Ideas by Mircea Eliade is an expansive three-volume study that examines the development of religious beliefs, rituals, and human psychology throughout civilization.
Recommended“so the other person we should talk about then probably is merce merce elliada because his he has a three volume history of religious ideas and it's also a great work in my estimation”
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Beyond Order
Beyond Order by Jordan B.
Discussed“i wanted to ask you about beyond order we have already translated it into russian and i think there's a very important point in the eighth chapter the translators and the editors especially liked it”
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The Idiot
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a profound 19th-century Russian novel that follows the compassionate, innocent, and deeply misunderstood Prince Myshkin as he navigates the cynical and corrupt high society of St.
Discussed“the idiot for example it the idiot's a very interesting book because and and you see this in in other another bits of dostoevsky's work as well is that his his most ethical characters can lose every argument with rationalists and still be better men”
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Other mentions in this episode (9) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“people who read 12 rules who watch your lectures and especially those who have read maps of meaning and the books”
“who watch your lectures and especially those who have read maps of meaning and the books”
“and also the fact that you mentioned him in maps of meaning has sparked a lot of interest in eric neumann”
“i mean what i was trying to do in maps of meaning was to bring this down to and in my other books for that matter was to bring this problem down to the individual level”
“because maps of meaning the reason i wrote maps of meaning essentially was to figure out how you get that under control as an individual and that took me deep into religious work and and religious morality”
“i wanted to ask you about your work on beyond order our translators and editors have pointed out that it has a very distinctive language and many levels of complexity to explore and comprehend the peculiarity of this language is that it somehow helps the reader set his perception set his mind on the book's narrative”
“when i was teaching at harvard i i was really concentrating on my maps of meaning course”
“and with with maps of meaning i think i probably wrote every sentence 50 times like i literally i mean that literally i'd write a sentence out and then i'd write another version of it then i'd write another version of it continually until i couldn't until i started generating variance and i couldn't make any qualitative distinction between them”
“i am working on a new book it's tentatively titled we who wrestle with god and i took that title from the biblical lectures when because i discovered for my i discovered so that other people didn't know this that the word israel meant we who wrestle with god”