To bring this back full circle to what I was pointing out to Boleo, what is interesting is that Jaynes may have been alcoholic, as suggested here. He may have himself regressed into bicameralism, and yet was unable to see the connection. If that is true, that would be ironic, and a testament to the power of addiction. The man, brilliant by many accounts, spent 50 years developing his theories, and yet could not see that he was living them!
http://www.danielwhartwig.com/documents/jaynes.pdf
In the end, Jaynes search for the grail of consciousness was truly monomaniacal, devoting close to fifty years of his life to its study. He claimed, “I’ve been trying to solve the problem of consciousness all my life. Everything, including my reputation among specialists is
second to that.” Indeed it was. Jaynes became increasingly isolated within the psychological
community following the reception of his book. Seen largely as an iconoclast, Jaynes had few personal colleagues, associates or students. At conferences and meetings of the various organizations he was associated with, Jaynes felt himself equally removed from his peers. As a result, Jaynes withdrew from academic life, suffering bouts of depression and may even have become an alcoholic. In a somewhat tragic sense, then, the hostility to his work and his ideas caused Jaynes a great deal of professional and emotional tension.
Jaynes, 77, died on November 21, 1997, at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. He had suffered a stroke. This once celebrated maverick of
the psychological community died a lonely iconoclast.
Side Note: It seems that Jeff Sandoz actually wrote an book titled
"Alcoholic Iliad/Recovery Odyssey: Utilizing Myth as Addiction Metaphors in Family Therapy." An excerpt is available here:
http://www.bookpump.com/bwp/pdf-b/9425114b.pdf