title: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
author:  Julian Jaynes 
description: Near Fine; Dust Jacket - Very Good; Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. First Edition and First Printing. Octavo, white dust jacket lettered in black on spine and front cover, author's portrait photograph uncaptioned on rear cover, 467 pp. A Near Fine book, showing a few specks of foxing on top and for page edges, in a Near Fine jacket with small scale roughening at spine ends and a few points of micro-wear. See scans. Princeton psychology professor Julian Jayne's controversial but respected treatise in which he lays out his contention that the human mind was not "conscious" until about 3,000 years ago, when circumstances forced it to arise. One landmark theory in a direction of scientific inquiry which is still in its infancy. An extraordinarily scarce first printing of the first edition. l-51n
zlib_text: JULIAN JAYNES 
  THE ORIGIN OF 
  CONSCIOUSNESS 
  IN THE BREAK 
  DOWN OF THE 
  BICAMERAL MIND 
  M A R I M E R 
  B O O K S 
  
  Julian Jaynes 
  THE ORIGIN OF 
  CONSCIOUSNESS IN 
  THE BREAK-
  DOWN OF THE 
  BICAMERAL 
  MIND 
  A 
  A Mariner Book 
  HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 
  BOSTON 
  • NEW YORK 
  
  First Mariner Books edition 2000 
  Copyright © 1976,1990 by Julian Jaynes 
  All rights reserved. 
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  this book, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Company, 
  215 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003. 
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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 
  Jaynes, Julian. 
  The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the 
  bicameral mind. 
  Includes bibliographical references and index. 
  r. Consciousness. 2. Consciousness — History. I. Title. 
  BF3HJ36 ia8'.2 76-28748 
  ISBN 0-618-05707-2 (pbk.) 
  Printed in the United States of America 
  MP 10 9 
  See last page of book for credits. 
  
  PREFACE 
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