Pinocchio

1940 Disney animated film in which wooden puppet Pinocchio must prove himself brave, truthful, and unselfish to become a real boy — and whose lies make his nose grow — a narrative Peterson reads as the mythological map of conscience formation.

Peterson reads Pinocchio as the most direct popular mythological map of conscience development: Jiminy Cricket as the still small voice that must be voluntarily adopted, the nose-growth as the inevitable betrayal of lies, and the transformation into a real boy as the reward for authentic self-governance.