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Julian Jaynes est un psychologue américain. Il est surtout connu pour sa théorie de la bicaméralité, présentée dans son livre La naissance de la conscience dans l'effondrement de l'esprit [bicaméral]. Cette théorie affirme que l'esprit humain était autrefois constitué de deux parties, une qui « parlait » et formulait la décision à prendre dans les situations de stress, l'autre qui écoutait et obéissait. Aucune de ces deux parties n'étaient véritablement conscientes au sens où on l'entend aujourd'hui, et la conscience serait apparue progressivement, au fur et à mesure que l'esprit bicaméral, comme il nomme cet état, disparaissait.

Il ne s'agit d'ailleurs pas, à proprement parler, d'une disparition mais de la conversion de l'usage de la seconde chambre . Celle-ci a plusieurs fonctions intriquées, en particulier la métis, le dialogue intérieur et donc globalement la conscience subjective.

Cette théorie, comme il l'explique dans la préface de son ouvrage majeur, lui fut en grande partie inspirée par les résultats des premières hémisphérectomies et surtout commissurotomies effectuées dans les années 1950 par le neurophysiologiste américain Roger Sperry afin de traiter des cas d'épilepsie aigüe par voie intrusive. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. février 1920 – 21. novembre 1997
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Julian Jaynes: Citations en anglais

“The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all.”

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Julian Jaynes livre The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Book I, Chapter 1, p. 41
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

“Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.”

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Julian Jaynes livre The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Book III, Chapter 3, p. 374
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

“The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption.”

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Julian Jaynes livre The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Book II, Chapter 3, p. 213 ( See also: The Exodus and Minoan eruption)
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

“There is no such thing as a complete consciousness.”

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Julian Jaynes livre The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Book II, Chapter 5, p. 281
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

“Paradise Lost, A further observation could be made upon the story of the Fall and how it is possible to look upon it as a myth of the breakdown of the bicameral mind.”

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Julian Jaynes livre The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Book II, Chapter 6, p. 299 (See also: John Milton)
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

“We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first.”

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Julian Jaynes livre The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Introduction, p. 18
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

“The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually.”

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Julian Jaynes livre The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Book II, Chapter 6, p. 302
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

“I therefore believe that these and many other movements of our time are in the great long picture of our civilizations related to the loss of an earlier organization of human natures. They are attempts to return to what is no longer there, like poets to their inexistent Muses, and as such they are characteristic of these transitional millennia in which we are imbedded.”

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Julian Jaynes livre The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Book III, Chapter 6, p. 445
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

“"What is the meaning of life?" This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked. There is no answer because words have meaning, not life or persons or the universe itself. Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.”

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As quoted in LIFE magazine (December 1988) http://www.humancondition.info/Beyond/ScienceReligion.html

“The central assertion of this view, I repeat, is that each new stage of words literally created new perceptions and attentions, and such new perceptions and attentions resulted in important cultural changes which are reflected in the archaeological record.”

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Julian Jaynes livre The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Book I, Chapter 6, p. 132 (Italics as per text...)
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

“We have said that consciousness is an operation rather than a thing, a repository, or a function. It operates by way of analogy, by way of constructing an analog space with an analog ‘I’ that can observe that space, and move metaphorically in it. It operates on any reactivity, excerpts relevant aspects, narratizes and conciliates them together in a metaphorical space where such meanings can be manipulated like things in space.”

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Julian Jaynes livre The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Book I, Chapter 2, p. 65-66
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

“I am emphasizing individuals set apartfrom others as ill, because, according to our theory, we could say that before the second millennium B. C., everyone was schizophrenic.”

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Julian Jaynes livre The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Book III, Chapter 5, p. 405
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

“Reading in the third millennium B. C. may therefore have been a matter of hearing the cuneiform, that is, hallucinating the speech from looking at its picture symbols, rather than visual reading of syllables in our sense.”

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Julian Jaynes livre The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Book II, Chapter 2, p. 182
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

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