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The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind
Title:
The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind
Author:
Jaynes, Julian, 1920-1997.
ISBN:
9780395207291

9780395324400

9780395329320
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, ©1976.
Physical Description:
467 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
The mind of man. The consciousness of consciousness ; Consciousness ; The mind of Iliad ; The bicameral mind ; The double brain ; The origin of civilization -- The witness of history. Gods, graves, and idols ; Literate bicameral theocracies ; The causes of consciousness ; A change of mind in Mesopotamia ; The intellectual consciousness of Greece ; The moral consciousness of the Khabiru -- Vestiges of the bicameral mind in the modern world. The quest for authorization ; Of prophets and possession ; Of poetry and music ; Hypnosis ; Schizophrenia ; The auguries of science.
Added Title:
Bicameral mind.