“Who Can Rule and Dare Not Lie”: Tennyson’s Bicameral King
Tennyson’s poetry is pervaded by the kinds of auditory hallucinations that Julian Jaynes describes in “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”
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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.
Somewhere in Earshot: Yates’ Admonitory Gods
No poet in the twentieth century wished to write visionary poetry – poetry given by supernatural source – more fervently than Yeats did. He was, as he …
Read MoreThe Origin of Consciousness, Gains and Losses: Walker Percy vs. Julian Jaynes
In 1978, three years after the publication of Walker Percy’s collection of essays on language and our existential situation, The Message in the Bottle, …
Read MoreThe “Sensed Presence” in Unusual Environments
The literature on human reactions to certain kinds of extreme and unusual environments indicates the occasional experience of another entity appearing to …
Read MoreSchizophrenic Process, the Emergence of Consciousness in Recent History and Phenomenological Causality: The Significance for Psychotherapy of Julian Jaynes
This paper on Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind illustrates the concept of “phenomenological causality,” …
Read MoreJulian Jaynes: Introducing His Life and Thought
In West Newton, Julian grew up in the big family home where he was born, a house that the congregation had built for the Rev. Jaynes in 1895. Julian …
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 …
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