How We Became Human

How We Became Human

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Moreno, Julio
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
EAN: 9781442228863
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How We Became Human: A Challenge to Psychoanalysis tackles the question of what distinguishes human beings from other animals. By interweaving psychoanalysis, biology, physics, anthropology, and philosophy, Julio Moreno advances a novel thesis: human beings are faulty animals in their understanding of the world around them. This quality renders humans capable of connecting with inconsistencies, those events or phenomena that their logic cannot understand. The ability to go beyond consistency is humans' distinctive trait. It is the source of their creativity and of their ability to modify the environment they inhabit. On the basis of this connective-associative interplay, Moreno proposes a new approach to the links human beings create amongst themselves and with the world around them. This theory focuses on a key question: What is the difference between human beings and the other animals? From this perspective, Moreno seeks to reformulate many of the classic psychoanalytic, psychological, and anthropological postulates on childhood, links, and psychic change.
EAN 9781442228863
ISBN 1442228865
Binding Ebook
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication date March 6, 2014
Pages 190
Language English
Country Uruguay
Authors Moreno, Julio
Translators Filc, Judith
Series The Library of Object Relations