Chinese Pictograms and the Bicameral Mind
Shirakawa (2002), speaking about ancient inscriptions on oracle-bones and tortoise-shells, suggests that pictographic writing originated in the way gods …
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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.
Odd Man Out
Princeton’s controversial professor Julian Jaynes is profiled by science editor Philip Hilts in “Odd Man Out.” Hilts, a writer for the Washington Post, …
Read MoreConsciousness, Hallucinations, and the Bicameral Mind: Three Decades of New Research
Jaynes maintained that we are still deep in the midst of this transition from bicamerality to consciousness; we are continuing the process of expanding …
Read MoreThe Lost Voices of the Gods (Interview with Julian Jaynes)
The hypothesis: Ancient man was virtually an automaton, who had no concept of self-fulfillment, no sense of sin or the brevity of life, no existential …
Read MorePoetry as Right-Hemispheric Language
Though the brain’s left hemisphere is commonly believed to be the “seat of language,” the right hemisphere processes a number of subtle linguistic …
Read MoreGods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind: The Theories of Julian Jaynes
Julian Jaynes, a professor of psychology at Princeton, is responsible for the most intriguing and extensive thesis yet to emerge from brain research…
Read MoreThe Brain-Mind Relation, Religious Evolution, and Forms of Consciousness: An Exploratory Statement
It is proposed that Julian Jaynes’s theory of the evolutionary transition from a bicameral mind to consciousness (“The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the …
Read MoreThe Ordering of Relations: Jaynesian Psycho-History, Bicameralism and Post-Individual Digital Subjectivity
During the course of this paper I explore the Jaynesian notion of bicameral consciousness in relation to notions of relational ordering and the …
Read MoreIntroduction to The Julian Jaynes Collection
In January of 1977, Julian Jaynes released to the world his book “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.” It was the …
Read MoreThe Quest for Jaynes’s Unpublished Writings
Since forming the Julian Jaynes Society in late 1997, the status of Jaynes’s unpublished writings has by far been the most frequent topic of inquiry in …
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