Voices, Consciousness, and the Bicameral Mind: A Scanner Darkly on the Road to Julian Jaynes’ Psychology

Richard Feist, in David Sandner (ed.) Philip K. Dick: Essays of the Here and Now (McFarland, 2020).

Summary:

Richard Feist’s “Voices, Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind: A Scanner Darkly on the Road to Julian Jaynes’ Psychology” underlies Dick’s use of philosophy in his fiction, and, more specifically, moves literary scholarship beyond his explicit use of Joseph Bogen’s idea of “two minds” in A Scanner Darkly to an examination of Dick’s philosophical thought in the novel in relation to other early brain researchers, especially Julian Jaynes’s work on the bicameral mind.