James Cameron's 1984 science fiction film in which an artificial intelligence (Skynet) sends a cyborg assassin back in time to kill the mother of humanity's future resistance leader — a myth of technological creation turning against its creators.
Peterson reads The Terminator as a technological-mythological retelling of the Frankenstein theme: intelligence without conscience, creation without wisdom, produces an entity that turns against humanity — the popular instantiation of the Faustian overreach archetype.
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