Cultural Zoo: Animals in the Human Mind and Its Sublimation

ISBN-13: 9781782201663 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 314 str.

Salman Akhtar;Vamik D. Volkan

Opis

In this book, North American psychiatrists explore the psychic bond between humans and animals and its importance in the normal development of the human mind, animals in human dreams, transformations of humans to animals in literature, animals generally in adult and children's literature and art, animals in religion, and how animals relate to immigration and national identity.

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