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137. Maps of Meaning 09: Patterns of Symbolic Representation

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Post Dramatic Stress Disorder - Is It a Symbolic Network?

People typically develop post dramatic stress disorder because they encounter some form of malevolence. And if you get truly unlucky with yourself or other people, it won't merely be that you're not trying hard enough. You'll encounter something in you or someone whose tely malevolent and bent on destruction. The entire world that's sort of the world that can be comprehended is nested inside a broader symbolic network. That seems to be the symbolic network that's made up of the dragon of chaos. It's like our representation of the set of all currently unknowable things....

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