Lecture Description
In this lecture, 04 and 05 combined, I discuss the relationship between the initiatory structure characteristic of shamanism and the process of radical personality transformation, self- or therapy-induced. The basic structure is order/paradise, chaos/the fall, re-establishment of order/paradise. Since all paradises fall, however, the true paradise is identification with the process of transformation itself. Want to support this channel?
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Course Index
- 01. Introduction: Personality from Multiple Angles
- 02/03. Historical & Mythological Context
- 04/05. Heroic and Shamanic Initiations
- 06. Jean Piaget & Constructivism
- 07. Carl Jung and the Lion King (Part 1)
- 08. Carl Jung and the Lion King (Part 2)
- 09. Freud and the Dynamic Unconscious
- 10. Humanism & Phenomenology: Carl Rogers
- 11. Existentialism: Nietzsche Dostoevsky & Kierkegaard
- 12. Phenomenology: Heidegger, Binswanger, Boss
- 13. Existentialism via Solzhenitsyn and the Gulag
- 14. Introduction to Traits/Psychometrics/The Big 5
- 15. Biology/Traits: The Limbic System
- 16. Biology/Traits: Incentive Reward/Neuroticism
- 17. Biology and Traits: Agreeableness
- 18. Biology & Traits: Openness/Intelligence/Creativity I
- 19. Biology & Traits: Openness/Intelligence/Creativity II
- 20. Biology & Traits: Orderliness/Disgust/Conscientiousness
- 21. Biology & Traits: Performance Prediction
- 22. Conclusion: Psychology and Belief
Course Description
Psychology 230H is a course that concentrates to a large degree on philosophical and neuroscientific issues, related to personality. It is divided into five primary topics, following an introduction and overview. The first half of the course deals with classic, clinical issues of personality; the second, with biological and psychometric issues. Students who are interested in clinical psychology, moral development, functional neurobiology and psychometric theory should adapt well to the class. An intrinsic interest in philosophical issues is a necessity.