/lit/ - Literature

Opinions on Peterson are just gossip until you've actually read Maps of Meaning. Everything else he's ever written or said publicly is an increasingly dumbed down version of the material he elaborates on much more effectively there. It also makes a better introductory case for Jung than Man and His Symbols, if you're interested in that.

>>16418799
jezebelposters fuck off

>>14793275
There's no one text. It's more like a big pile of texts that compound into AAAAAAA I'M GOING INSANE over a period of time. Anyone worth a damn outgrows it, though. It goes roughly like this:
>discover science at young age
>get hooked and resolve to learn as much as you can
>gradually realize through your adolescence/early adulthood that the natural laws of the universe undermine, if not completely invalidate much of the presuppositions that were at the bedrock of your ideals and beliefs
>eventually hit a wall of existential dread and feel yourself shatter in slow-motion across weeks, months, even years
>become a nihilist and fellate every bleakest possible perspective in a vain attempt to feel like you're so witty you've risen above the world that's driven you into your current despair
>eventually get around to reading through philosophy, psychology, and history to fill the gaping void
>gradually begin to look inward and find all thing things you lost in the external world
>eventually realize that IRL existential horror itself has become quaint and pedestrian to you
>settle into a gentle awe and general sense of contentment with the universe and your undeniable ignorance of it

>>14776586
I know this was posted ironically, but I seriously doubt the person who originally took this pic ever got ten pages into the Poe collection.