Romanticism, Bicamerality, and the Evolution of the Brain
The central question of the modern poet vis-a-vis poetry is summed up by Frost in “The Oven Bird”: “what to make of a diminished thing.” Stripped of his …
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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.
Greek Zombies: On the Alleged Absurdity of Substantially Unconscious Greek Minds
Even if Kant is right in his analysis of consciousness, this does not necessarily invalidate Jaynes’s claims about the mental life of earlier cultures…
Read MoreThe Origin of Rhetoric in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
The concept of rhetoric does not appear in Julian Jaynes’s “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.” Nor does Jaynes’s work…
Read MoreAuditory Hallucinations in Princeton University Undergraduates
A replication of Thomas Posey’s study, demonstrating that auditory hallucinations are far more common in the general population than was previously known.
Read MoreEchoes 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 …
Read MoreRetrospective: 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 MoreThe Self as Interiorized Social Relations: Applying a Jaynesian Approach to Problems of Agency and Volition
A self is an internalized conceptualization of agency, imported by socialization processes through the use of metaphoric mind-words “into” our heads. …
Read MoreJulian Jaynes and Ezekiel’s Wheel
As a follow-up to the discussion of the binary soul doctrine in my book, “The Division of Consciousness,” a further discussion of the binary soul …
Read MoreSociety In the Self: Towards An Anthropology of Agency
Many have convincingly argued that the self, rather than an acultural, essentialist entity, is locally constituted from a matrix of age, class, gender, ….
Read MoreVestiges of the Gods: The Influence of Julian Jaynes on North American Literature
In 1976, Julian Jaynes wrote “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind,” his only major published work during a lifetime of …
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