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Discussions with Julian Jaynes: The Nature of Consciousness and the Vagaries of Psychology

Brian J. McVeigh

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Description:In 1976, the late Julian Jaynes of Princeton University published the groundbreaking The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind in which he argued that before the twelfth century BC, the minds of individuals were of a different neurocultural organization. Rather than being consciously self-aware as people nowadays think of it, the behavior of our ancient predecessors was governed by religiously-inflected “voices” and visions. These were produced by a “two-chambered” or “bicameral” language areas in the right hemisphere organized advice and admonishments and coded them into hallucinatory experiences that were conveyed over the anterior commissure to the left hemisphere’s corresponding language regions. Brian J. McVeigh, a student of Julian Jaynes, took the opportunity in 1991 to record a series of informal, wide-ranging, and unstructured discussions with Jaynes, considered a controversial maverick of the psychology world. Weaving their way in and out of the discussions are the following a clarification of the meaning of “consciousness”; the relation between linguistics, consciousness and language study as a crucial method to reveal this relation; the history of psychology and its prejudices; and some practical, therapeutic implications of Jaynes’s ideas on consciousness. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the emergence of consciousness, language and cognition, cultural psychology, the history of psychology, and the neurocultural transformation of our species. A glossary of names provides useful historical context. Presenting a series of wide ranging and thought-provoking conversations with Julian Jaynes, who was one of the most insightful and original thinkers of the twentieth century, Discussions with Julian Jaynes constitutes an important contribution to the growing literature on Jaynes and his ideas.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Discussions with Julian Jaynes: The Nature of Consciousness and the Vagaries of Psychology. To get started finding Discussions with Julian Jaynes: The Nature of Consciousness and the Vagaries of Psychology, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Nova Science Publishers

Release: 2016

ISBN: 1536100676

Description: In 1976, the late Julian Jaynes of Princeton University published the groundbreaking The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind in which he argued that before the twelfth century BC, the minds of individuals were of a different neurocultural organization. Rather than being consciously self-aware as people nowadays think of it, the behavior of our ancient predecessors was governed by religiously-inflected “voices” and visions. These were produced by a “two-chambered” or “bicameral” language areas in the right hemisphere organized advice and admonishments and coded them into hallucinatory experiences that were conveyed over the anterior commissure to the left hemisphere’s corresponding language regions. Brian J. McVeigh, a student of Julian Jaynes, took the opportunity in 1991 to record a series of informal, wide-ranging, and unstructured discussions with Jaynes, considered a controversial maverick of the psychology world. Weaving their way in and out of the discussions are the following a clarification of the meaning of “consciousness”; the relation between linguistics, consciousness and language study as a crucial method to reveal this relation; the history of psychology and its prejudices; and some practical, therapeutic implications of Jaynes’s ideas on consciousness. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the emergence of consciousness, language and cognition, cultural psychology, the history of psychology, and the neurocultural transformation of our species. A glossary of names provides useful historical context. Presenting a series of wide ranging and thought-provoking conversations with Julian Jaynes, who was one of the most insightful and original thinkers of the twentieth century, Discussions with Julian Jaynes constitutes an important contribution to the growing literature on Jaynes and his ideas.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Discussions with Julian Jaynes: The Nature of Consciousness and the Vagaries of Psychology. To get started finding Discussions with Julian Jaynes: The Nature of Consciousness and the Vagaries of Psychology, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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