Articles by Julian Jaynes

Some men dominate an area of their time by growing admiration on themselves. A few by the affection they instill. Others by power over positions and …

If this is the case, then certain dramatic predictions follow. If consciousness was learned sometime after 1000 B.C. (as I argue), there should be no …

Why study the history of psychology? To most historians of science the question is not very interesting. The answer is quite obvious: the historical …

Panel discussion following Julian Jaynes’s “Consciousness and the Voices of the Mind” lecture and subsequent lectures by Daniel Dennett, Jonathan …

Open discussion of Julian Jaynes’s “Consciousness and the Voices of the Mind” lecture with members of the audience at Tufts University.

Question and answer session with members of the audience following Julian Jaynes’s “Consciousness and the Voices of the Mind” lecture.

Any theory of mind, any theory of consciousness, has to also be a theory of dreams. And the theory I am representing very simply says that dreams are …

Open discussion with members of the audience and all of the panelists following Julian Jaynes’s “Consciousness and the Voices of the Mind” lecture and …

… With this metaphor-generated consciousness, there comes the metaphor of time as a space, or spatialized time, in which human beings ‘see’ themselves as embedded in their own histories.