2017 Personality 08: Carl Jung and the Lion King (Part 2)

In this lecture, I finish my analysis of Disney's Lion King, which provides a dramatic representation of many of the archetypes identified and analyzed by Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, student of Nietzsche and Freud, and originator of analytical psychology.

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[FloatingOrbProductions]

Thank you Jordan for putting your lectures online for free. As someone who didn't go to Uni I find your lessons invaluable.

[matrichard]

Just leaving a few notes for myself...
2:19 PTSD
3:53 How much will you maintain your stability and how much will you explore? Unwise exploration. Openness + neuroticism.
4:44 Personality and political belief. How open borders should be... Openness vs Conscientiousness
7:33 (Cambridge Analytic) Big 5 + Marketing + AI
We're only wiling to hear what we want to hear. We cut ourselves off from feedback. We become stagnant, lose competence and confidence. You must dialogue with people you disagree with... they're the only ones who are going to tell you what you need to hear.
10:10 [GOLD] Using fantasy to organize your world... What artists do... They are on the perimeter of knowledge structures, extending the domain of human knowledge, that's where open people live.
14:49 Big 5 traits as different kinds of adaptations to different types of niches... Playoff / Balance between Plasticity and Stability.
15:49 (Columbine) Human darkness... think people have good intentions? You're probably high in agreeableness ;)
19:52 [GOLD] Encountering something that you don't understand (pure malevolence). It won't let you go until you figure it out. Memories more than 18 months old, with negative emotion still there, that's a mini PTSD [GOLD]
"People are basically good." Then you encounter someone who is not good...
Writing to sort out your past...
29:38 Failure in trying to learn new things, a perfectionist won't try new things, a bad first draft is necessary...

49:17 What are the factors that encourage turning into a tyranny? One is the wise part is not paying enough attention to the malevolent part. This is true at the personal level.

1:12:43 When a person wants to change....

1:30:49 [GOLD] Shadow and Persona...

[IllWillTheThrill]

I'm just totally floored how anyone could say anything bad about Jordan Peterson. He's just an honest, intelligent person trying to make sense of the world and pass on what he learns to all of us.

[nancyisaac]

“What’s her name again?” “Nala!” “That’s right, Mala”
JBP getting their names wrong is adorable and hilarious at the same time.

[molchlurch]

First! These lectures are the best thing to happen on youtube in quite some time.
Thank you Professor Peterson.

[joshuatoms]

"Each of us is becoming a micro-celebrity surrounded by electronic sycophants..."

This is such a meta statement, it needs it's own lecture to explore.

[ThatWhatIs]

The fact that one can watch these great lectures for free is something to be grateful for

[mgillespiedesign]

This is the most dense and mindblowing lecture I've ever heard. Unlike my old college professors, Peterson's tangents add so much to the conversation.

[mindexpandingknowledge]

I love how he dives deep and seems to drift but ties down his points back to Lion King. Absolute genius and reincarnation of the Big Masters.

[PsychedelicFootball]

This is truly amazing. I am not exaggerating when I say this, but Dr. Peterson, your lectures are changing my life in an unprecedented way. Please don't EVER stop posting.

[Varlwyll]

"you have to be a fool if you want to learn anything new". Hearing it phrased that way just changed my life I think.

[dilly]

I get a free lecture, from one of the best teachers in the world. I am sorry, but traditional higher education BA degree does not seem as attractive for 100k of debt in the US.

[KUCHYRock]

Notice that he always receives applause from the class. I have a master's degree, but I do not recall that any class I was ever part of would applaud a professor for the material he just completed teaching. As a matter of fact, we were all kind of glad the class was over. Granted I went to CSUN, not Harvard, but still... I find this admirable.

[aliasmassistance]

The reason you remember the past isn't to make an objectively accurate record of the past, it's so that you can use the information in the past to prepare you for the future.

That one made me cry man

[ladynottingham]

Hearing all of this conversation about conscientiousness vs. openness makes me wonder if parents who are very high in conscientiousness (to an unhealthy level) can traumatize a child who is of a more open nature. Especially when the child feels the parent's disgust towards what the parent feels is a weakness in the child. Both of my parents are VERY conscientious and I definitely remember as a child feeling that disgust Dr. Peterson talks about directed towards me. I have struggled with low self-esteem and depression since I was a teenager. Thank you Dr. Peterson; that part of the lecture put a lot of things into perspective for me.

[mikeperez]

Can you imagine the society we would have if more college professors were like Dr. Peterson? I wish I would have met this man 15 years ago. Thank you for what you're doing.

[WoodenBench]

"An archetype is a meme, but it's a very, very, very DANK meme"

[MajorShot]

Peterson is just the most amazing and intelligent person I know of. I have been listening to him all the time for over a year now and read both his books and still everytime I listen to a lecture of his I learn so much more than I would learn in any other lecture. He has changed my life in a way I can't describe to anyone who hasn't heard anything of him.

[kdhKJFGiht]

"Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe."

[rafaeljordao]

I feel as if islands of unconscious wisdom are coming together inside me through bridges of articulated knowledge.

Thank you, Jordan B. Peterson, for all you have shared.