How We Became Human

A Challenge to Psychoanalysis

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

AvJulio Moreno,Julio Moreno,Julio Moreno

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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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Utgivningsdatum2014-03-06
Mått158 x 237 x 21 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLibrary of Object Relations
Antal sidor210
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781442228856
ÖversättareFilc, Judith

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AcknowledgmentsPrefaceChapter 1: HumannessChapter 2: Virtual RealityChapter 3: Connection and AssociationChapter 4: The Link I: TheoryChapter 5: The Link II: ManifestationsChapter 6: BeliefChapter 7. ChildishnessChapter 8: Childishness II: The History of Childhood and ToysChapter 9: The Emergence of HumannessChapter 10: The Biological History of the Parent-Child Link: Childrearing StrategiesReferencesIndexAbout the Author

This English translation of Moreno's idiosyncratic and demanding reading of what it means to be human, originally published in Spanish in 2002, will repay the Anglophone who makes the effort to follow its multiple trajectories of thinking. A psychoanalyst based in Argentina, Moreno covers an impressive terrain of ideas, all tied. . . .to the question of how humanness differs from animalness and how humans' understandings of their world are, in the end, faulty. Ranging across the disciplines of psychology, biology, philosophy, anthropology, and physics, Moreno situates the strengths and deficiencies of Freudian metapsychology. Students of psychoanalysis and psychology, especially those interested in problems related to child analysis and treatment, will find this book rewarding. Not a book easily compared with others, Moreno's speculative treatment of what is human about humans is an important contribution to the more generally defined, and growing, turn back to humanism. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, professionals.