Julian Jaynes
American psychologist
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the busy give-and-take of talk have worn away with use.
—Julian Jaynes, American psychologist, The Origin of Consciousness In the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, 1976
Posted on January 19, 2001 at 1:41 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Because in our brief lives we catch so little of the vastness of history, we tend too much to think of language as being solid as a dictionary, with a granite-like permanence, rather than as the rampant restless sea of metaphor which it is.
—Julian Jaynes, American psychologist, The Origin of Consciousness In the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, 1976
Posted on November 16, 2000 at 12:55 PM
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