Boys, You Are Beasts

Within each of us resides a beast — a guide to the unconscious, from where our neuroses, fantasies, and obsessions arise. Philosopher Oksana Timofeeva closely analyzes three clinical cases of Sigmund Freud and discovers in the depths of the human psyche the animalistic nature that undergoes suppression and training. Horses are beaten, rats are poisoned, wolves are trapped, scapegoats are sacrificed — such is the mechanism of violence that permeates culture from its very origins to the present day. The heroes of this book are little Hans, the Wolf-Man, the Rat-Man, described by Freud, as well as Rodion Raskolnikov, Friedrich Nietzsche, King Oedipus, characters from European fairy tales, Greek and Biblical myths. "Boys, You Are Beasts" is a bold re-examination of psychoanalytic theory and relevant philosophical prose offering a new perspective on mental reality.