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136. Maps of Meaning 08: Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Two Year Old Is a Battle Ground of Primary Motivation Forces

Two year old is a battle ground of primary motivation forces. And something like that is being hinted at in the mesopotamian creation story. You can think about them as grown up two year olds causing all sorts of trouble. The first thing they do is kill apsu and and make their home on his corpse. It's brilliant. So the the elder gods make their their home on the corpse of apsu. Well, what does that mean? Well, that's that sort of how it is. O anyways, so these children are produced, and what happens? They're very noisy. They run around doing all sorts of things....

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