566. The Moral of the Story With JBP: There's No Such Thing As A Dragon
7/28/202540 min
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Jordan B. Peterson· Host0:29
So recently, I recorded some analysis of children's stories once again. I had done this years ago with Pinocchio and The Lion King. Uh, that was part and parcel of the lectures that I did at Harvard and at the University of Toronto. More recently, I recorded an analysis of Snow White, the Grimm's Brother version, and also of Hansel and Gretel. I'm going to continue that today with a more recent book, a much more recent book called There's No Such Thing As A Dragon: The Story in Pictures by Jack Kent. I used to read this to my Maps of Meaning class often as the first lecture, because it touches on themes that are very relevant to a narrative understanding of the world. A description of the structure through which we see the world is a story. And the motifs in stories