On Being and Becoming HumanIn an age of robotics, artificial intelligence, and renewed respect for animals, are we still such extraordinary creatures? In On Being and Becoming Human, psychiatrist Willard Gaylin uses two of Western culture's most powerful legends--Adam and Eve and Pinocchio--to define the fundamental nature of being human. |
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Whats So Special About Being Human | 3 |
Symbol and Reality | 23 |
Freedom and Choice | 45 |
Copyright | |
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activities Adam and Eve adult anticipation aspects autonomy awareness B. F. Skinner beast become behave biological capable capacity child chimpanzee commitment concept conscience created creature culture define dependency dignity drive early emerge emotions environment essential esthetic existence experience Fairy feeling female force Frankenstein freedom Freud fusion future Genesis genetic guilt guilty fear helpless Homo sapiens human behavior human nature human sexuality human species ideal identification imagination individual inevitably infant instinct IRISH ELK labor lives male marriage mature love means mechanism modern moral mother narcissistic never newborn nurturing ourselves pain parents passion perception period person philosophers Pinocchio pleasure potential pride primitive protective psychoanalysis psychological punishment reality recognize relationship response romantic love sexual reproduction Sigmund Freud social society survival symbolic T. H. White things thou Totem and Taboo traditional values women York