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How We Became Human
A Challenge to Psychoanalysis
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2014
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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.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-2885-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-2886-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
197
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Acknowledgments No access
Preface No access
1 Human-ness No access Pages 1 - 22
2 Virtual Reality No access Pages 23 - 40
3 Connection and Association No access Pages 41 - 52
4 The Link I No access Pages 53 - 70
5 The Link II No access Pages 71 - 94
6 Belief No access Pages 95 - 108
7 Childishness No access Pages 109 - 126
8 Childishness II No access Pages 127 - 142
9 The Emergence of Human-ness No access Pages 143 - 160
10 The Biological History of the Parent-Child Link No access Pages 161 - 178
