ONE FACE OF DEHUMANIZATION: ANIMALIZATION
ONE FACE OF DEHUMANIZATION: ANIMALIZATION

Summary/Abstract: Dehumanization is a deliberately distorted perception of otherness – and a very efficient crime facilitator. One of its forms, animalization, is intended to arouse disgust, a major ingredient of negation of intimacy, in its turn a constituent of the triangle of hate. Various hypotheses and experiments attempt to elucidate the mechanism of disgust and hate, including the purported existence of a brain “switch”. The Aristotelian division between man and animal, biting into the territory of humankind, persisted through the Enlightenment and into the contemporary era. Its endurance gives little hope about a significant change of mindset.

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