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137. Maps of Meaning 09: Patterns of Symbolic Representation

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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I Don't Understand the Situation With Women

A very large number of my clinical clients, but also young men i've talked to in general, are absolutely terrified of women. They don't see her as an individual. They here as the manifestation of a judgemental ideal. And then it's only in establishing the relationship with the actual woman that they can start differentiating between the judgemental ideal and the actual individual woman. That also requires the sacrifice - you never can have an ideal woman. So to have a relationship with any woman, you have to sacrifice the relationship with the ideal woman,. You have to see the individual woman and separate her from the ideal. The same thing happens to the hero in sleeping beauty, right? He sees...

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