Abstract
On the basis of the film: L’enfant Sauvage (1970) by François Truffaut, we proposed to discuss the following concepts: humanization and socialization, from the perspective of the Sociobiological Information Theory. And then, we made an interpretation of the changes that occur in the nervous system of a wild (feral) child at the (belated) inception of its socialization. In summary, we seek to answer the following questions: I. what is Itard looking for in Víctor: humanize it or socialize it? And, II.
Translated title of the contribution | An informational interpretation of the Aveyron’s Wild Child: L’Enfant sauvage (1970) |
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Original language | English |
Pages (from-to) | 221-230 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Revista de Medicina y Cine |
Volume | 15 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2019 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- L’enfant Sauvage
- Truffaut
- cinema
- humanization
- neocortex
- neurology
- paleocortex
- socialization