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The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind / Julian Jaynes.

Title
The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind / Julian Jaynes.
Author
Jaynes, Julian.
Publication
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1977, c1976.

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Additional Authors
Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection wid
Description
467 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Alternative Title
Bicameral mind
Subject
  • Civilization
  • Consciousness > history
  • Consciousness
  • Consciousness > History
  • Civilization > history
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • A duplicate copy of this title was part of the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection, but was not retained.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The mind of man. The consciousness of consciousness ; Consciousness ; The mind of Iliad ; The bicameral mind ; The double brain ; The origin of civilization -- The witness of history. Gods, graves, and idols ; Literate bicameral theocracies ; The causes of consciousness ; A change of mind in Mesopotamia ; The intellectual consciousness of Greece ; The moral consciousness of the Khabiru -- Vestiges of the bicameral mind in the modern world. The quest for authorization ; Of prophets and possession ; Of poetry and music ; Hypnosis ; Schizophrenia ; The auguries of science.
ISBN
0395207290
LCCN
^^^76028748^//r912
OCLC
  • 2401662
  • SCSB-11947933
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library