What Exactly is Self-Control? | Jordan Peterson

Dr. Peterson explores how unconscious habits and behaviors affect our daily lives.
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➤➤Speaker:
Jordan Peterson
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➤➤Video Sources:
2017 Personality 09: Freud and the Dynamic Unconscious - Jordan Peterson
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➤➤Transcript (Partial):
So, your attention, for example, is mediated by unconscious forces. And you know that. You know that perfectly well, and this is another Freudian observation. You know, if you're sitting down to study, for example, your conscious intent is to study. But you know perfectly well that all sorts of distraction fantasies are going to enter the theater of your imagination non-stop and annoyingly. And—and there isn't really a lot you can do about that except maybe wait it out. You'll be sitting there reading and your attention will flicker away. You'll think about, oh I don't know, maybe you want to watch Jane the Virgin on Netflix or something like that. Or maybe it's time to have a peanut butter sandwich. Or you should get the dust bunnies out from underneath the bed. Or it's time to go outside and have a cigarette. Or maybe It's time for a cup of coffee or it's like, all these subsystems in you that would like something aren't very happy just to sit there while you read this thing that you're actually bored by. And so, they pop up and try to take control of your perceptions and your actions non-stop. Maybe you think well, this is a stupid course anyways, why do I have to read this damn paper? And what am I doing in university? And what's the point of life? It's like, you can really—well you can really get going if you're trying to avoid doing your homework and—and then you might think, well what is it in you that's trying to avoid because after all, you took the damn course and you told yourself to sit down. Why don't you listen? Well, because you're—you're a mess. That's basically why. You haven't got control over yourself at all. And no more than I have control over this laptop. Okay, so there's the memory function of the unconscious and there's the dissolutive function—that's an interesting one. The unconscious contains habits, once voluntary, now automatized and dissociated elements of the personality which may lead a parasitic existence. That's an interesting one. I would relate that more to procedural memory, you know, so what you've done is practice certain habits, whatever they might be, let's call them bad habits and you’d like those things to get under control. But you can't. So maybe when you're speaking, for example, you use “like” and “you know” and you say “um” a lot and you've practiced that so you're really good at it and you'd like to stop it, but you don't because you've built that little machine right into your being, right? It's neurologically wired and it's not under conscious control and anything you practice becomes that. It becomes part of you and—and that's another element of the unconscious, a different part. And then there's a creative part which is that, well, you know, you're sitting around and maybe you're trying to write something or maybe you want to produce a piece of art or a piece of music or maybe you're just laying in bed dreaming and you have all these weird ideas, and especially in dreams, it's like what—where do those things come from? And even more strange, one of the things that's really weird about dreams and almost impossibly weird is that you're an observer in the dream. It's like a dream is something that happens to you. Well, you're dreaming it theoretically. So how is it that you can be an observer? It's almost like you're watching a video game or a movie, but you're producing it, at least in principle. Although the psychoanalysts would say well, no not exactly. Your ego isn't producing it. Your unconscious is producing. It's a different thing. It's a different thing. And of course Jung would say, well, it's deeper than that. The collective unconscious might be producing it...
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