The Melancholy Android

<p><b>Explores the cultural significance of androids.</b></p><p>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.</p>