Lecture Description
In this lecture, I discuss how the basic or archetypal categories we use to frame the world are represented in image, where they existed long before their nature could be articulated. These categories include the individual (hero/adversary), culture (wise king/tyrant), and nature (destruction/creation). The heroic individual (the knower) is typically masculine, as is culture (the known), while the unknown is feminine. These categories can be conceptualized, as well, as explorer, explored territory, and unexplored territory. The most abstract category is the dragon of chaos, the monster who guards what is most valuable. It is from this most primordial of categories that the other three emerge. Our existence as prey and predator is reflected in the ambivalent representation of the absolute unknown.
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Course Index
- Context and Background
- Marionettes & Individuals (Part 1).
- Marionettes and Individuals (Part 2)
- Marionettes and Individuals (Part 3)
- Story and Metastory (Part 1)
- Story and MetaStory (Part 2)
- Images of Story & MetaStory
- Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation
- Patterns of Symbolic Representation
- Genesis and the Buddha
- The Flood and the Tower
- Final: The Divinity of the Individual
Course Description
This course is based on the book Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief. Maps of Meaning lays bare the grammar of mythology, and describes the relevance of that grammar for interpretation of narrative and religion, comprehension of ideological identification, and understanding of the role that individual choice plays in the maintenance, transformation and destiny of social systems.