Showing results for "Julian Jaynes" in Literature & Fiction

Departure(s) is the story of a man called Stephen and a woman called Jean, who fall in love when they are young and again when they are old. It is the story of an elderly Jack Russell called Jimmy, enviably oblivious to his own mortality. It is also the story of how the body fails us, whether through age, illness accident or intent. And it is the story of how experiences fade into anecdotes, and then into memory. Does it matter if what we remember really happened? Or does it just matter that it mattered enough to be remembered?

Prim and proper Oakley Waldo seemed just fine riding solo at work and in her personal life. But when I walk in on her and discover we're neighbors, she'll have to work double time to keep the tension between us at a low simmer. My mission? To bring out the wild woman I know is hiding underneath that tightly wound bun and perfectly unruffled uniform. Only problem is, she seems dead set on discovering the past I vowed to keep hidden away.

Il libro presenta, per la prima volta in italiano, un'antologia dei saggi più significativi di Julian Jaynes, in cui lo psicologo americano delinea la sua originale tesi sull'origine della coscienza. Attraverso un viaggio appassionante fra teoria del linguaggio, testimonianze storico-letterarie e osservazioni neurofisiologiche, Jaynes mostra che la coscienza è soltanto una forma recente, faticosamente conquistata, che si distacca dal fondo arcaico della "mente bicamerale".