Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

If you can't escape from a problem that besets you, what makes you think for a moment that it's you that's besetting you with the problem?

And you know this perfectly well.

You know this perfectly well because many times in your life, if you had the chance of just saying to yourself, you should let that problem go, you would.

But you can't.

You can't, for example, when your conscience calls you out, or if you do, you damage yourself by lying that deeply.

And it's the same if something calls to you, not so much besets you, but grips your interest, which is something that happens to scientists all the time.

They're insanely...

Called forward by some phenomena.

And phenomena.

Some set of phenomena.

Phenomena means to shine forth.

They're called forward by what shines forth to them.

And so you need that calling and conscience to specify your problem.

And so you do that in relationship to what besets you and interests you.

And there's an autonomy in that.

You know this too.

You can't decide what you're interested in.

This is so weird.

This is part of what got me interested in psychoanalytics.

Thought so many years ago, because Freud and Jung both said there are autonomous... There's an autonomy of spirit operating within you.