An informational interpretation of the Aveyron’s Wild Child: L’Enfant sauvage (1970)

Translated title of the contribution: An informational interpretation of the Aveyron’s Wild Child: L’Enfant sauvage (1970)

Hans Contreras-Pulache, Alexa Ivonne Joya Quispe, Dafne Solange Moya-Maldonado, Angello Jesús Oscanoa Chávez, Yumi Shannon Pérez Ly, Jeel Moya-Salazar

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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 contributionAn informational interpretation of the Aveyron’s Wild Child: L’Enfant sauvage (1970)
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)221-230
Number of pages10
JournalRevista de Medicina y Cine
Volume15
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • L’enfant Sauvage
  • Truffaut
  • cinema
  • humanization
  • neocortex
  • neurology
  • paleocortex
  • socialization

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