PSY434H1 Lecture 2: Lecture 2 - PSY434
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Sept 19, 2011: campbell - myth is like a public dream, dream is a private myth. Jung"s archetype - potentiality to act in a certain way when faced with (transpersonal) something that"s been faced previously. Ex = fact of death, need to socially belong, nourishment, our bodies. B/c environment is constantly changing we need to be constantly. Fear (first freeze >> curiosity if environment does not seem deadly: know you are in the unknown when: Inconveniences: anything you weren"t expecting in your life, self-deception. We can all do it on dinosaur bones) Memory is reconstructive from current mental-state (like throwing flesh. Ex = within pain (bear story), self-deception is the internal biological analgesic system which is only short-term (can only work short-term and not long term. Once people can handle self-deception, it has the potential to grow (peterson: what we do tells us stuff about ourselves and what we value at the moment.
