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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (Book Review)

Sheldon R. Waxman
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1977, 434, Social Theory and Public Policy, p. 239.

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Jaynes states that, around 1200 B.C. cataclysmic events occurred which forced the breakdown of the bicameral mind of man - comprised of (for all righthanders) the left cerebral hemisphere, having language, rational, linear, terminal mind processes; and the right side, containing spatial, visual, exhaustive, Jungian archtypical processes. ...