Consciousness and myth. What are we doing to be conscious creatures. Zhuravlev I.V.

In this book, a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of consciousness is undertaken from the standpoint of modern psychology, psycholinguistics and psychopathology. The author represents consciousness as a complex multi -level system of lifetimely forming “organs” (objectivation). The phenomena of culture and pathology (primitive and modern myths and rituals, painful rituals of neurotic, hallucinations and many other phenomena) are considered as the effects of the interaction of “organs” of consciousness of various levels. An attempt to compare the phenomena of primitive consciousness and mental disorders is made.

The book is addressed to psychologists, philologists, philosophers, humanitarians and everyone who is interested in the structure and functioning of human consciousness.