THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE BREAKDOWN OF THE BICAMERAL MIND

Just finished reading this fantastic book by late Princeton pscychologist Julian Jaynes...2 copies at The Strand remain for $4.47 as of last Wednesday when I was in. Here's a link to a fantastic TIME MAGAZINE article from 1977 about said book, summing up Jayne's biography and theory on the history of pre-conscious man. As a side note, the Ancient Near East Art wing of the Met is one of my new favorite things in NYC, where a lot of the original artwork from the civilizations discussed by Jaynes can be looked at, and you can marvel at the incredible graphic design sensibility these folks had immediately upon INVENTING METALLURGY (not too shabby).