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)

Julian Jaynes Quotes

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.