I don't say this enough... THANK YOU, Professor, for putting all this out here for FREE. You are awesome.

Thank you, Dr. Peterson, for making your lectures accessible to the general population! The information you share and the propositions you put forth feed my curiosity. Listening to you feels like exploration.

This is the absolute best lecture on basic Freud I have ever watched and I am a psychoanalyst.

Summary: 1- Freud was the first person to say a lot of things that we take for granted today 2- Mental disorders have a sociological element The culture battles against the individual (superego x id) and the battle between the individual and the culture is going to take forms that differentiate between cultures (brief comment: the cultures are different so they have a different impact on people; and people are different as well, so each person is going to have a unique battle) 3 - Sex; sexual diseases; birth control pill 10:00 4 - Book suggestion: The discovery of the unconscious (Jordan says it is the best introduction to the psychoanalitic thought) 5 - People lived on about a dollar a day at 19th century 6 - Freud was very influenced by Nietzche 7 - We take a lot of things for granted nowadays, like: People don’t always say what they mean. Their speech and their actions are influenced by factors that they are not necessarely conscious of. Passions, dreams and mental illnesses are manifestations of the unconscious 8 - Freud’s ideas were rapidly integrated into the culture (in despite of the resistance that really existed and exists) That is why people talk so much about his erros. Everything that he was right about was integrated into the culture and is now taken for granted, so the only things left “about him” are his erros 9 - Sublimation 10 - Educated man will marry uneducated woman, but educated woman won’t marry uneducated man. Woman look for someone who is at least as competent as they are or even more competente 20:00 11 - The superego (Society) vs the id: jail analogy The more authoritarian the Society is, the bigger is the struggle between the individual (attempting to be an individual) and the culture (attempting to turn him into an absolutely predictable machine) Very related to number 2 12 - Freud viewed the primary conflict in mental life as the ego tortured by the id (biological forces), but also inhibited and repressed by the superego 13 - Piaget: The fundamental conflict within people isn’t necessarely social vs the individual. The fundamental conflict is between motivational systems and then between their expression across time within the individual and then between their expression across time within the individual in relationship to all other individuals and to society (So it is more like a complex problem that could be solved by a civilized game than a massive force, that being superego, crushing the individual into submission) 14 - Neurotic people 15 - People on the bottom of dominance hierarchy are much more likely to consider the spirit of the structure as an authoritarian and repressive spirit, because it isn’t making room for you 16 - Industrial Revolution 17 - Superego x id and school system; ADHD; Jaak Panksepp and rats 18 - Hypothesis test and hypothesis generation 30:00 19 - Freud’s hypothesis generation 20 - Behaviorism and ethology; Skinner; Frans de Waal 21 - You have twice as many female ancestors as you do male ancestors 22 - Freud, Jung and other clinicians are basically ethologists. They are studying human beings at their relatively natural environment and trying to figure out how they work 23 - Clinical practice vs lab work 40:00 24 - Reason, emotion and motivation 25 - After Freud we understood that we are not driven mostly by rationality. This is a BIG discovery. “Little rational guy” analogy (43:10) 26 - The rational intelect is not the fundamental element of people’s being 27 - Darwin 50:00 28 - Terror management theory 29 - Free association The importance of talking (52:30) 30 - Explainning a movie to a friend 31 - Fighting with someone you love 32 - Epigenetics 1:00:00 33 - We can represent ideas in symbolic forms 34 - Dreams 35 - The unconscious; when someone is mad 36 - People who don’t end bad relationships 37 - Ego vs id and the “I wish I didn’t say that when I was angry” 38 - Voluntarily inaccessible memories and the unconscious 1:10:00 39 - Unconscious and new ideas (brainstorm) 40 - Unconscious and myths; Jung

I wish every professor on Earth was as good as Mr. Peterson

This man is the man I set as the "ideal mode of being." He is the embodiment of the father. He has filled a fatherly hole in my life.

One of the greatest teachers of our era. Maybe the greatest. I wish my university teacher had the ability and knowledge to talk like this.

Learning more from Peterson in 20 mins a night on UKposts than I ever did studying at university. Fantastic lecturer, and one of the great minds of our generation. Thank you Jordan 👍🏻

Thank you to the SJW crowd in Toronto who launched Peterson into world wide view! Excellent backfire !

surely one of the best lecturers ive seen to date.

Thank you to everyone who intentionally, or unintentionally, brought Dr. Peterson to my attention. Very rewarding.

I'm watching this because I'm unhappy with my academic education. I'm glad people like Dr. Peterson share their knowledge with the world

How many of us inspected our phones at the 6:00 mark when the ringtone went off in the video? Pavlov would be proud.

Somebody posted in one of his other lectures that I found so VERY true. "Its like I'm trying to sip knowledge from a fire hose at full pressure"

Great introduction to Freud. I like the concept of psychology as “engineering”

This might be the single most enlightening lecture on Freud ive ever heard,

Watching these lectures revitalizes my confidence in therapy and honestly makes me want to book a session with Peterson to see if an expert can make a difference in an individuals mental health

I've followed Prof. Peterson for 4+ years now but was directed recently to later episodes in this academic series, I guess, because UKposts recognized I was a devotee of Russian literature so, after watching those, I began at the beginning. In this segment I feel that he really inhabits the material. He is discussing Freud extemporaneously, following his notes, in a fashion that truly expresses what his mind knows. It's primal and pure.

1:09:14 - 1:09:28 The ability to take a simple sentence and convert it into its abstract classes at a word level. Genius.

I wouldn't mind a quarter mil student loan if all the faculty in my school would at least measure to a tenth of the professor's brilliance.

I started taking notes on these lectures in a five-subject notebook..............yeah I don't think there are enough pages to contain all the insightful information that you pour into each lecture. Thank you for all you do!

For anybody who couldn't hear/make out what Freud dictates in the recording at the beginning: "I started my professional activity as a neurologist trying to bring relief to my neurotic patients. Under the influence of an older friend and by my own efforts, I discovered some important new facts about the unconscious in psychic life, the role of instinctual urges, and so on. Out of these findings grew a new science, psychoanalysis, a part of psychology, and a new method of treatment of the neuroses. I had to pay heavily for this bit of good luck. People did not believe in my facts and thought my theories unsavory. Resistance was strong and unrelenting. In the end I succeeded in acquiring pupils and building up an International Psychoanalytic Association. But the struggle is not yet over."

Wow, I am blessed to have across this. What a teacher! Just and simply GREAT.

Thank you for this video, I just had a lecture on Freud in my psychology course and the lecturer went on about Diversity, equity and inclusion, his pronouns and how Freud was a white male. This is one of the top 150 universities in the world…

This man is freaking brilliant wish i had him during college

It’s amazing the journey this man is still on!

Thank you so much for this post. This man is extremely knowledgeable and gifted in delivering it to the people. Without this posting of this man and his lectures on UKposts I would have never had the great opportunity to ponder these ideas and such a cohesive and interesting way.

I deeply felt in love with your teachings! Thank you so much Dr. Peterson!

Thanks for publishing this lesson for all of us .

Dang I am a bit shocked by your presence in this video. You're out of breath(?), exhausted(?), generally appear ill. You're obviously healthier now. Thank God for that, you're a valuable resource for many of us.

This was incredibly self reflectional. Since the Piaget lecture, i've been constantly self reflecting thanks to Professor. But this directly speaks to mental illness and as someone who has to take heavy anti psychotics due to suicidal tendencies, all i ACTUALLY want is someone to talk to. Someone who would listen and the problems would then go away.

This is an excellent course! Thank you professor Peterson; it seems like every minute is jam packed with profound yet useful knowledge applicable to one's every day life.

This lecture was amazing! I had no idea about Freud before hand. In only knew the stereotypes but after watching this I am blown away! Great lexture! Great topic!

You are simply one of the best, and interesting teacher ever! Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🌹 if at least 60% of all teachers was like you the university would be the most interesting place in the world.

This lecture is really great because it gives structure to what we learned before

freud, jung, rank, reich, ferenczi = a complete psychological model. great video thank you JB

Thank you for sharing your lectures with the world.

BEYOND BRILLIANT! I love you Jordan Peterson! You are REAL. And RIGHT ON!!!

So many quote worthy insights. Jordan you are an exceptional lecturer and have an innate ability to spark an energetic intrigue in the student. I mean when a class claps at the end of a class says it all.

Now knowing the difficulties JBP was going through at this point, makes these lectures that much more profound and enlightening in showing the kind of man that he is.

He was looking rough here, he looks 200x more healthier now things are getting better in his life. I'm grateful for all this content. I didn't get to go to his show this year due to work bs. But thank you, I wouldn't of stayed alive and taken my own life through drugs&suicidal thoughts. Tried justification of my own self destruction. Then I destroyed those thoughts, which freed me from those chains. I have some chains to break but I'm getting there. It wouldn't have been possible without this man's chicken soup while I was extremely sick. Thank you Dr. Peterson

You know, I found out about you because of the SJW stuff, but this is way more interesting. It resonates with me and feels more correct than anything I've heard from any clinical shrink I've ever talked to.

Glad to see he got that hypothalamus under control and dropped the diet coke habit. He'll be in the middle of a sentence and suddenly his brain goes "sugar!" and his arm happily responds.

I hope you make the history books, Dr. Peterson. You are one of the greatest minds of our time. ❤

One of my favorites of his lectures. The idea that we can be precisely scientific and objective with what's going on in people's heads seems a bit far fetched, so the best you're going to get is a tool to help you chisel at the edges, and that's what Freud and Jung offered. Both of them had ideas that still apply today.

Dr Peterson. Your lectures have been so useful to me. I am a psychologist. Thanks a lot!

Jordan Peterson is great, he looks so young here, Ive never watched the older lectures beyond 2016, the carnivore diet really did change his physique tremendously, it's pretty crazy now that I see where he came from.

Yes! The truth will always come to Light! Dr. Peterson is a National Treasure for sure on many levels. It could be, in the course of time, that professors and psychologists will be adding Peterson's name to the long line of other historical and notable psychologists.

I majored in Political Science. It won out over what ended up being a near-sighted choice...I should have learned more about my own inner workings rather than thinking I could fix anything out in the world while I was still broken and resentful of how little of a voice I had in University. I got my education but I gave in to my worst demons in the process. I'd like to say thank you for your lectures as they afford me an opportunity to learn about a subject of which I've always had an un-kindled interest. Is the Book list for this class posted anywhere online?

Thank you, I’m in college right now and this really has helped.

What a great lecturer. A true master at his craft.

"Slips of the tomb", there you go, professor.

Education at its best. I owe you so much.

Thank you Jordan for your lectures. They are life changing.

Another wonderfully informative lecture.

Such an amazing man, I am so jealous of the people that can learn from Jim in person ❤

DR . Peterson how do you let things go? You answer will be a lot of help and get my life together with a meaningful aim that I have thank you I appreciate for you work thank you sir

Fascinating lecture.

Fascinating and useful stuff to know, I feel like I improved a bit as a person by listening to this.

Perfect! There is also an X-ray of the mind and consciousness in the background.

So thankful to have found this lecture on Freud. Throughout my entire undergraduate degree, all of my professors basically laughed at Psychodynamic/ psychoanalytic theory without genuinely articulating why. There seems to be a backlash to Freud's case studies methods, particularly on upper-middle-class white people, as they are not a representative sample of the general population. Ironically, the large majority of contemporary psychological theory is based on white psychology students and thus is also not representative of the population at large. I really can't understand this hatred for Freud and this overt bias toward CBT, despite the shallow theraptuic approach invloved in CBT.

Thank you for your lectures.. Always a pleasure!

God bless this man😭

Watching in 2023. What a treat for those students to receive a lecture of this quality. Dr Peterson's ability to deliver it all without notes apparently. Regarding the women who studied primates, I imagine it was an advantage when trying get closer to the chimps/gorillas, the dominant male would not be so aggressive presumably. Diane Fosse met a tragic end of course. At one time I had a recurring dream in which a vast tsunami was coming up towards me, but with no soundtrack. I'd either wake up before the wave broke, or the dream would fast forward to me floating on a calm sea in bright sunshine. Oddly enough, such dreams ceased after the 26.12.2004 Asian tsunami, but that's probably just a coincidence. Another recurring dream featured me pulling endless rope-like chewing gum out of my mouth, which I took as meaning a thwarted desire for communication. Luckily I don't get this dream any more and indeed seem to dream less now, or at least I don't remember them. Dreams fascinate me, and I'd quite like to paint some of the ones I've had over the years.

Dr. Peterson is a gem, a walking treasure of knowledge and wisdom, I imagine that one day people will look back at him similar to people like Issac Newton, someone who can understand and be able to explain concepts that aren't fully understood yet, but also be able to advance them in some way by making these understanding public knowledge regardless of what people threaten him with

Thank you sooo much for your honesty in those times where stupidity is being constantly promoted by the government

That was an interesting lecture. I hope in the lectures about existentialism, you would point at Sartre's existential psychoanalysis in which there is a room for intentionality, choice and decision. From this point of view, emotions like anger don't stem from sub-personalities or drives, but they are purposeful and part of our choices and our way of dealing with the world.

Listening to Alan Watts brought Mr here. Great lecture Mr. Peterson

One thing that I like about you, Jordan, is how painful how your thought process is. That's good.

Absolutely excellent lecture.

You’re incredible and I admire you. 🙏

Fantastic, thank you Dr JBP

Absolutely brilliant

Jordan Peterson is the equivalent to having a neuralink that feeds you psychology information, which is probably the most important information you would want connected to your brain.

I just discovered these lectures and they're fabulous. Such a distillation. Sadly UKposts has now enacted the policy of one part program and one part ad.

Freudian psychoanalytic theory is a guide to understanding how human personality develops. Freud was an extremely attentive and sensitive man.

An outstanding lecture

Brilliant JBP 👏 Having this man around is a blessing. During this lecture he announced a film for the next one, but he never said the name. Any idea on which film he is talking about ? Thanks !

That was awesome. Thanks JP

Bravo Dr. Peterson, Bravo!

Here's a transcript of that Freud recording. Even if you look up the original it's hard to understand his voice (he had mouth cancer at the time): "I started my professional activity as a neurologist trying to bring relief to my neurotic patients. Under the influence of an older friend and by my own efforts, I discovered some important and new facts about the unconscious in psychic life, the role of instinctual urges and so on. Out of these findings grew a new science, Psycho-Analysis, a part of psychology and a new method of treatment of the neuroses. I had to pay heavily for this bit of good luck. People did not believe in my facts and thought my theories unsavoury. Resistance was strong and unrelenting. In the end I suceeded in acquiring pupils and building up an International Psycho-Analytic Association. But this struggle is not yet over. Sigmund Freud."

I can't wait for the movie on Tuesday!

the associations are linked together by emotional similarities , thoughts wanders and spread and their rational can be tracked by observing

This was absolutely great. Thanks!

Outstanding. Young children are very active...it's extremely difficult to sit still for an entire school day. Even adults have a hard time doing that.....then if they don't comply .. people want to drug them up.

1:11:37 When you walk threw a grass field At first no marks and so on marks the more you go threw it the easier it is to get to a certain conclusion I really liked the way nick vazquez approached this

Thank you for this content

1:01:50 he's talking about people making slips of the tongue, and he ironically makes a slip of the tongue.

This is a good one

You know Peterson talks a lot about how humans find it really useful to just throw themselves at a problem and in the process of dealing with it they improve as a person generally, and I feel like it's really cool to be able to see how that has played out to a large extent in his time in the public spot light. You can in this video that he is a lot less refined than he has become. Not to say that his style in this is "bad," and the topics are still very much interesting, but it is cool to see how has become such an intellectual/explanatory power house in the time that he has been actively engaged in public discourse to the extent that he has since the whole pronouns thing. There is a sort of clarity conviction in the way he presents now that adds to the impact of his explanations really powerfully. I definitely wouldn't wanna try to debate something with the guy thats for sure. Or at least with the intent to win haha.

Living legend

Thanks Jordan!

"If you were Darwin and not nervous? yeah well..." made my week.

Great talk. I'm curious what the film was?

Tha you Prof. Peterson. Its all coming back from Psych 101. I think much much better now.

WOW!! Thanks for posting.

He's actually just such a nice guy who is devoted to his students.

What is the name of the movie with clips of case studies referenced throughout this lecture that the class was going to watch in the subsequent class?

Mr Peterson, my name is Taymour Janekeh. Thank you for this video. You've had a big influence on me, and your videos, alongside the works of Nietszche, Freud and Jung are currently influencing my next animated fantasy epic cartoon.

I enjoyed this lecture immensely. Could someone please provide me with the name of the movie the professor is going to show his students.