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136. Maps of Meaning 08: Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Voluntary Confrontation of Suffering Is Crucial to Its Transcendence

The idea is something like the voluntary acceptance of suffering is key to its transcendence. Things that bother you need to be confronted voluntarily, he says. You have to accept them. There doesn't seem to be a limit to that. It works in small things. It works with phobias. Tramas are usually associated with death or disease or malevolence. So that's pushing it pretty far. Ind there ist seem to be alimit to to the idea that the voluntary confrontation with the things that are terrifying is curative. While we don't know....

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