British author of the Harry Potter series — one of the best-selling fiction series of all time — whose hero narrative Peterson reads as a modern instantiation of the archetypal hero's journey from chaos to order through voluntary suffering and self-sacrifice.
Produced the most widely read instantiation of the hero archetype in contemporary popular culture — the orphan who discovers his identity and purpose through voluntary confrontation with evil — making Jungian-Campbellian myth accessible to a global audience.
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