bicameral mind

== English == === Etymology === Coined by Julian Jaynes as a “rather inexact metaphor to a bicameral legislature of an upper and lower house” (1989) and appearing in his 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. === Noun === bicameral mind (plural bicameral minds) (psychology) The hypothetical mentality, neurology and sociology of the theory that before the historical emergence of introspective consciousness ancient humans and the earliest civilizations were governed by auditory hallucinations ‘spoken’ by the right cerebral hemisphere and ‘heard’ by the left hemisphere as the voices of gods. ==== Synonyms ==== bicamerality bicameral mentality ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== bicameral bicameralism === References === Cavanna, A.E. et.al., "The “bicameral mind” 30 years on: a critical reappraisal of Julian Jaynes’ hypothesis." In Functional Neurology 2007; 22(1): 11-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20190716042127/https://www.functionalneurology.com/materiale_cic/224_XXII_1/2108_the%20bicamiral/index.html Jaynes, Julian. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1976, 1990 (491 pgs). →ISBN (pbk.) Jaynes, Julian. "Verbal Hallucinations and Pre-Conscious Mentality". Presented at a conference at the Harvard University Department of Psychology, October, 1989. https://www.julianjaynes.org/articles/verbal-hallucinations-and-preconscious-mentality.php Kuijsten, Marcel (ed.). Gods, Voices and the Bicameral Mind: The Theories of Julian Jaynes, Julian Jaynes Society, 2016 (312 pgs). →ISBN https://www.julianjaynes.org/gods-voices-bicameral-mind/pdf/Gods-Voices-and-the-Bicameral-Mind.pdf