The Melancholy Android: On the Psychology of Sacred Machines

by Wilson, Eric G.
ISBN: 9780791468463
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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.
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Wilson, Eric G.
  • ISBN: 9780791468463
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.02 x 0.45
  • Number Of Pages: 180
  • Publication Year: 2006
Language: English