We are greatly in need of specific research in this area of… - Julian Jaynes

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We are greatly in need of specific research in this area of schizophrenic experience to help us understand Mesolithic man.

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Julian Jaynes (27 February 1920 – 21 November 1997) was an American psychologist, best known for his book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976), in which he argued that ancient peoples were not conscious.

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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.

We are greatly in need of specific research in this area of schizophrenic experience to help us understand Mesolithic man. - Julian Jaynes

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