The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

1976

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind is the influential, controversial, and critically acclaimed 1976 book by the Princeton psychologist, psychohistorian and consciousness theorist Julian Jaynes (1920-1997).

1978

The book was nominated for the National Book Award in 1978, and received dozens of positive book reviews, including those by well-known critics such as John Updike in The New Yorker, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in the New York Times, and Marshall McLuhan in the Toronto Globe and Mail.

1982

Two later editions, in 1982 and in 1990, were released by Jaynes with additions but without alterations.

1990

Two later editions, in 1982 and in 1990, were released by Jaynes with additions but without alterations.

2013

At the same conference the philosopher Jan Sleutels (Leiden University) gave a paper on Jaynesian psychology. In June 2013, The Julian Jaynes Society Conference on Consciousness and Bicameral Studies was held in Charleston, West Virginia.

2016

McVeigh in The Psychology of Westworld: When Machines Go Mad, the notion of bicamerality is present in the 2016 science fiction TV series Westworld. The idea of bicamerality has influenced novelists Philip K.




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