The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind

Jaynes, Julian 1920-1997 (Author).

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ISBN: 0395207290
Physical Description: 467 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1976]
Copyright: ©1976.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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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.