*cough* bicameral mind *cough* The trend started in the Renaissance and had it's peak with Montaigne's essays, Sterne's Tristram Shandy (my favourite book) and Rousseau's works.
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yeah, i was waitin' for a jaynes reference! =P
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It didn't really catch on with the humanities :/
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Because Freud didn't happen until the late 19th century? -
Little unfair, load of 17th and 18th century stuff about sensibility and emotion, etc.
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Lawrence Sterne's Tristram Shandy is one big psychological treatment, without couch and much more insightful than anything that Freud ever wrote.
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If I’m a Caesar/ancient ruler, anybody who will write about my doubts and fears & sell it to my enemies (basically every one, incl siblings!) will be executed and I will write a poem about a successful and glorious triumph over his surprising delicate limps

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Personally, I think many project modern sensitivities on ancient practices: eg the Bible was *not* written as science book that now has been proven wrong (flat earth? Solid firmament of the sky? etc etc) Hero adventures were more about claiming the credit (“We did it!”)...
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... than about REALISTICALLY depicting each aspect of the trip. Also w/mass illiteracy you don’t have much idea competition in terms of style & topics.
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