The Melancholy Android

[Dave Monroe]

Wilson, Eric G.  The Melancholy Android:
   On the Psychology of Sacred Machines.
   Albany: SUNY Press, 2006.

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 anaylze the relationship between
mind and machine, but also considers a pressing
paradoxical dilemma—loving machines we want to hate.

http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61314

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