The Melancholy Android : On the Psychology of Sacred Machines
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| Title: | The Melancholy Android : On the Psychology of Sacred Machines |
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| Description: | Explores the cultural significance of androids.The Melancholy Android is a psychological study of the impulses behind the creation of androids. Exploring three imaginative figures-the mummy, the golem, and the automaton-and their appearances in myth, religion, literature, and film, Eric G. Wilson tracks the development of android-building and examines the lure of artificial doubles untroubled by awareness of self. Drawing from the works of philosophers Ficino, Kleist, Freud, and Jung; writers Goethe, Coleridge, Shelley, and Poe; and movies such as Metropolis, The Mummy, and Blade Runner, this book not only offers a range of sites from which to analyze the relationship between mind and machine, but also considers a pressing paradoxical dilemma-loving machines we want to hate. |
| Authors: | Eric G. Wilson |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Mind and body, Melancholy, Androids |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, PSYCHOLOGY / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
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