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The Human Animal is an ambitious work by Weston La Barre to explain in a single volume everything that makes us distinctly human. Well, that seems to be what he had in mind when he started. The book can be neatly divided in two parts First is Science: our evolution from single cells to animals, our development as primates, our separation from the other apes, the development of material and social culture, the development of the family and social order, conceptions and misconceptions of race and ethnicity, and the diversity of different languages (chapters 1-11, pp.1-207). The the second part, Nonsense: understanding homosexuality as a social and evolutionary perversion, how primitive people are comparable to the mentally ill, how religion is a widespread superstition founded on a cult of fear and ignorance, and how the politics of the modern world cannot evolve us into golden age society because nations cannot resolve their Oedipal conflicts and come to terms with their motives and responsibilities (chapters 12-15, pp. 208-334). I wish I was joking. I have three main issues with this book, and their all in that last part. First, this book totally lost its way. It began as a scientific book on the topic of human evolution written for the general public. Then, without any notice or explanation, it flipped into a disorganized rant about the ills of modern society and the foolishness of people who against against scientifically sanctioned ideas. Where did that come from? Second, La Barre seems to have undergone some Freudian conversion somewhere between chapters 11 and 12. The remainder of the book frames everything in terms of Oedipal conflicts, with no real sense of scope, boundary, or measure. I could never tell when he was being literal or metaphorical when using the Oedipus conflict for... just about anything. Maybe he lost sense of it himself. I guess this book was first published around the time psychoanalysis and Freudianism had reached its peak in academia, so its no surprise to find references in here, but these arent passing references. Theyre the recurring theme of a disorganized rant. One thing that keeps coming up is the riddle of the Sphinx, which I couldnt for the life of me understand what he meant. Fortunately, while reading this I happened to come across a reference to a book called Riddle of the Sphinx by GГ©za RГіheim, 1934) mentioned in Rethinking Psychological Anthropology (by Philip K. Bock), which explained it as an outmoded explanation of human sexuality, routed in psychoanalysis. Probably already outdated by the time La Barre wrote this book, but thats speculation so lets set it aside. What really matters is that La Barre is waaaaaay out on a limb with this one. I cant imagine he reached (or impressed!) his contemporary readers, his fellow anbthropologists, or even his fellow Freudians. It pays to get your point across. Which brings me to three. Finally the writing. The first part was so well written: solid examples, clear line of thought, no obvious bias or personal opinions, plain language with light humor - everything you could expect from an introductory science book! The writing in the second part is just terrible. No chapter has any clear thesis, or traceable line of thought. Chapter 8 - People are Different - begins with this: Genetically, the human species is polytypical. The implications of this biological fact are most remarkable - and even now are only becoming more fully understood. He goes on to explain that this means there is no single type or norm of proper human, from which we all depart. That is, no person or group displays any fundamental, normal attributes but instead all races are really different arrangements of genetic traits, but none are any closer than any other to some abstract norm. In other words, there are different types of people. Okay, maybe science isnt your thing, but you probably got that hes talking about genetics, the species, and what were learning about theyre related. He then goes on to give perhaps the best 17 pages Ive read yet debunking any scientific basis for racial prejudice. Was this controversial to the American public in 1954? Maybe so, maybe not. It was certainly in line with the ideas of professionally anthropology, at least since Franz Boas. In other words, excellent writing to convey well-established professional ideas. Compare this with the introduction to chapter 14, Superstition and the Soul: The durability of a belief and its dignity as culture (as opposed to psychosis) have to do with the number of its cultural adherents, geographically and historically. Its viability is largely related to it emotional attractiveness and efficacy in providing a current equilibrium and peace of mind; its persistence in time has nothing to do with the cosmic truth of the belief. Wheres he going with this? Well, obviously hes not the religious type, but other than that, who knows? He spends 37 more pages loosely discussing how religion and superstition are obviously(!) based on irrational beliefs that contradict the mighty and righteous cult of Science. I couldnt find any clear argument anywhere in the remaining chapters. The final chapter is a loose discussion of local, national, and international politics, Hegels dialect of history, Marxs vision of a proletariat uprising, every mans basic Oedipal conflict (which is never really discussed in terms of being resolved vs. unresolved, even as a matter of degree; and in which mention of women is totally absent), war, industry, intellectualism, and a vision of the potential future, all of which somehow bears relationship to our genetic heritage. Yeah. So there you have it. All in one book. Whats really crazy about all this is La Barre clearly had some talent for writing, even if youre not into his style or humor. But all that got totally lost in the end. Its almost like he went on some spirit journey and came back as a bitter psychopath (which he equates, see p. 286). Or his contempt for the irrational, as when he rails against dreaming of all thing: Dreaming is an indiscipline of the mind, a temporary psychosis that unfetters the organism from reality, social and cultural as well as physical (p. 278). He puts psychotics and poets in the same boat as minorities of thought (talk about stretching a point), and at one point talks about intellectuals as the culture heroes of the new era. He even decries all of Western Philosophy as a product of bad grammar, the unfortunate consequence of misunderstands due to the nature of ancient Greek (pp. 299-301). Tongue in cheek? Again, I wish I was joking. All the humor from the first half of the book was drained away, and only bitterness remained. Why 2 stars? Because what was good was really good. He even included a good list of further reading reference, something Im big fan of. But he really went off the deep end. Maybe those first chapters are still worth reading, but youd probably do just as well with couple modern books and a few good conversations.
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