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'This book is a major contribution to culture and to the psychoanalytic literature. The authors explore how animals, both wild and domesticated, have powerful symbolic meanings in our psyches, mythology, religion, literature, art, music, and popular culture. From the prehistoric art of Lascaux to Picasso, from The Fly to the American eagle, the psychoanalytic perceptions are subtle and suggestive, the aesthetic, film, and national insights are a delight.'-Peter Loewenberg, Dean, Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, Professor of History and Political Psychology, UCLA'Our cousins - the

Title Cultural zoo : animals in the human mind and its sublimations / edited by Salman Akhtar and Vamik D. Volkan.
Edition [New] edition.
Publisher London : Routledge
Creation Date 2018
Notes This edition originally published in print: London : Karnac Books, 2014.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
English
Content COVER
Table of Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Animals and the Human Mind
CHAPTER 1 Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Bond Between Man and Animals
CHAPTER 2 Dreams of Animals
Part II Animals and the Culture at Large
CHAPTER 3 Human to Animal Transformations in Literature
CHAPTER 4 Animals in Children's Stories
CHAPTER 5 Artists and Beasts: Sacred and Sacrificed
CHAPTER 6 Animals, Music, and Psychoanalysis
CHAPTER 7 Animals and Religion
CHAPTER 8 An Annotated Visit to the Cinematic Zoo
CHAPTER 9 Immigration, National Identity, and Animals
NAME INDEX
SUBJECT INDEX
Extent 1 online resource (314 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010702662605171
MARC RECORDS

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