Cultural Zoo: Animals in the Human Mind and Its Sublimation

ISBN-13: 9780367324025 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 314 str.

Salman Akhtar; Vamik D. Volkan

Opis

This book traces the historical and cross-cultural aspects of the psychic bond between man and animals, and elucidates the role of animals in the normal development of the human mind. It discusses the phenomenology and dynamics of the appearance of animals in human dreams.

Spis treści

Introduction -- Animals and the Human Mind -- Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Bond Between Man and Animals -- Dreams of Animals -- Animals and the Culture at Large -- Human to Animal Transformations in Literature -- Animals in Children’s Stories -- Artists and Beasts: Sacred and Sacrificed -- Animals, Music, and Psychoanalysis -- Animals and Religion -- An Annotated Visit to the Cinematic Zoo -- Immigration, National Identity, and Animals

O autorze

Akhtar, Salman