The Melancholy Android

by Eric G. Wilson

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791468461
• ISBN13: 9780791468463
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"