Julian Jaynes book 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)
“I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.”
Book III, Chapter 3, p. 361
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)
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