'Other' Psychology of Julian Jaynes: Ancient Languages, Sacred Visions, and Forgotten Mentalities

by Brian J. McVeigh

In his provocative but critically acclaimed theory about the origin of introspectable mentality, Julian Jaynes argued that until the late second millennium people possessed a different psychology: a "two-chambered" (bicameral) neurocultural arrangement in which a commanding "god" guided, admonished, and ordered about a listening "mortal" via voices, visions, and visitations. Out of the cauldron of civilizational collapse and chaos, an adaptive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845409515
• ISBN13: 9781845409517
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Imprint Academic (Ips)
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"