How We Became Human: A Challenge to Psychoanalysis (Library of Object Relations) - Hardcover

Julio Moreno

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1442228857 ISBN 13: 9781442228856

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK), 2014

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Julio Moreno, MD, PhD, is a faculty member at Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association’s Psychoanalytic Institute, the School of Psychology at Buenos Aires University, and the University of Hospital Italiano. His previous works include Tiempo y trauma: Continuidades rotas, and La infancia y sus bordes: Desafíos para el psicoanálisis.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442228857
• ISBN 13: 9781442228856
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 210