How We Became Human
A Challenge to Psychoanalysis
Abstract
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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- i–xii Preface i–xii
- 1–22 1 Human-ness 1–22
- 23–40 2 Virtual Reality 23–40
- 53–70 4 The Link I 53–70
- 71–94 5 The Link II 71–94
- 95–108 6 Belief 95–108
- 109–126 7 Childishness 109–126
- 127–142 8 Childishness II 127–142
- 179–188 References 179–188
- 189–196 Index 189–196
- 197–197 About the Author 197–197