On a different level

I started reading a book called "The Breakdown Of Consciousness In The Bicameral Mind" a couple of decades ago.

it is VERY difficult to get through and comprehend one paragraph let alone retain anything from that paragraph moving on to the next.
Alan bloom, by any chance?
I tried reading his "the closing of the American mind"
Very interesting, but boy was it dry

Then again, I also worked my way through the 4 volume "the fundementals"
I think that one was printed in 1890-something