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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

by Julian Jaynes

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Language: English

O, WHAT A WORLD of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind!

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics.

  • Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary matched “Consciousness”. Retained metadata contains “Consciousness” in the title, “Consciousness” in the subject metadata, and “Consciousness” in the edition title.

    • Consciousness· via Open Library
    • Consciousness· in title
    • Consciousness· in subject
    • Consciousness· in edition title

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Editions

Open Library reports 8 editions; 2 cataloged here.

Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

2000Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference PublishersEnglish
  • 9781299902930
  • 1299902936
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Open Library record

1976Houghton MifflinEnglish
  • 9780395207291
  • 0395207290
Borrowable

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Cataloging notes

  • Open Library reports 5 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 8 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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openlibrary-work:OL17371657W
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