Echoes of the Gods: Towards a Jaynesian Understanding of Rhetoric
If Julian Jaynes had done nothing but write Chapter 2 of Book I of “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind,” rhetoricians …
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Directly Related Articles
A listing of many of the articles directly related to Julian Jaynes’s theory. See also the Indirectly Related Articles and Supporting Evidence categories.
Retrospective: Julian Jaynes and The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
A four-part retrospective review of the work of Julian Jaynes by Bill Rowe.
Read MoreTwo Origins of Consciousness
Consciousness has two origins, one in history and one in childhood. The first one we struggle to get even a glimpse of, the second we can watch emerge. …
Read MoreThe Ancient Dark Age
Within a period of forty or fifty years “at the end of the thirteenth and beginning of the twelfth century almost every significant city or palace in the …
Read MoreThe Evolution of Self-Talk
Language originally derived from a mammalian auditory and gestural communication system solely based on emotions. It gradually developed into a stable …
Read MoreJulian Jaynes’s Bicameral Mind Theory as a Metaphor for Alcoholism
Family therapists utilize a technique known as the metaphor as a therapeutic shorthand for the description of repetitive behavioral patterns. I will ….
Read MoreThe Lonely Odyssey of Julian Jaynes: Searching for Inner Voices
Is it possible that you were not conscious while you read the above paragraph? Julian Jaynes, a Princeton psychologist and author of The Origin of …
Read MorePresence, Poetry, and the Collaborative Right Hemisphere
Neuropsychologist Michael Persinger’s ‘Muse Factor’ experiment holds up in the study of mystics and poets with the added caveats of enhanced temporal …
Read MoreNeuroimaging, Auditory Hallucinations, and The Bicameral Mind
Discusses recent neuroimaging studies that lend support to Julian Jaynes’s neurological model of the bicameral mind.
Read MoreAlone in the Country of the Mind: The Origin of Julian Jaynes (Interview)
There is another kind of life, one not much lived anymore: a life of privacy and contemplation, a life sustained behind a single purpose pursued through decades.
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