Consciousness and myth. What do we do to be conscious beings?

This book undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of consciousness from the standpoint of modern psychology, psycholinguistics and psychopathology. The author represents consciousness as a complex multi -level system of lifetimely forming "organs" (objectivation tools) 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" consciousness of various levels. An attempt is made to compare analysis of the phenomena of primitive consciousness and mental disorders.
The book is addressed to psychologists, philologists, philosophers, humanitarian students and everyone who is interested in the structure and functioning of human consciousness