호메로스의 서사시에 나타난 양원적 정신과 의식의 기원

• 영문명: The Bicameral Mind and the Origin of the Consciousness in Homeros' Epics: Centering on Julian Jaynes' Theory
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: 김봉률(Bong-youl Kim)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제94호, 209~232쪽, 전체 24쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2010.03.30

영문 초록

This paper aims to search for the origin of the consciousness by introducing Julian Jaynes' work, The Origin of the Consciousness in the breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. According to Jaynes, consciousness as a social construction was learned only after the breakdown of the bicameral mind during the era when verbal language occurred but yet written language didn't come. The bicameral mind was composed of the right cerebral hemisphere giving hearing voices, and the left cerebral hemisphere interpreting and following them. It was developed as a form of social control, enabling ancient cultures such as Mesopotamia, Inca and Mycenae to flourish One of the most important literary evidences of the bicameral mind is Iliad. Iliad"s heroes had no consciousness, so that they lacked introspection and consideration like zombies. They experienced verbal hallucinations, and made them their actions’ guides. Meanwhile, Odyssey is recording the growth of subjective consciousness of Odysseus resisting against gods' hearing voices and making his own choices. Jaynes' theory is very important because it bridges between the period of non-consciousness and of the consciousness in ontogeny as well as phylogeny｡

목차

I. 문제제기

II. 줄리안 제인스의 의식의 개념과 양원적 정신

III. 호메로스 서사시에 나타난 양원적 정신과 의식의 기원

IV. 마무리

키워드

the origin of consciousness bicameral mind Julian Jaynes lliad Odyssey