Julian Jaynes

Julian Jaynes (1920 - 1997) is a American Psychologue. He is especially known for his theory of the Bicaméralité, presented in his book the birth of the conscience in the collapse of the '' spirit (1994, original edition 1976). This theory affirms that the human spirit formerly consisted of two parts, one which “spoke” and formulated the decision to be taken in the situations of Stress, the other which listened and obeyed. None of these two parts were truly conscious with the direction where it today is heard, and the conscience would have appeared gradually, as the bicameral spirit, as it names this state, disappeared.

It does not act besides, strictly speaking, of a disappearance but of the conversion of the use of the second room (right hemisphere for the droitiers which does not have a reversed cerebral Latéralisation). This one has several intricate functions, in particular the mongrel, the interior Dialog and thus overall the subjective Conscience.

Biography

Julian Jaynes was born the February 27th 1920 with Newton in the Massachusetts. Impassioned very early with the questions of the Art and the origin of the human Conscience, it starts to study the Philosophie and the Littérature with the Université of Harvard in 1940. In 1943, it enters to the Université McGill where it is diverted traditional philosophy to be forwarded to the Psychologie. After a short experiment of part-time lecturer to the University of fine Toronto 1944, it continues its studies with the Université of Yale in 1945, obtains a Maîtrise and a Doctorat and works as research assistant. He continues his career in 1964 with the Université of Princeton, where he teaches the psychology of 1966 with 1990. He dies the November 21st 1997 with Charlottetown in the Island-of-Prince-Edouard.

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