Boys, you are animals.

There is an animal in each of us – a guide to the unconscious, where our neuroses, fantasies and obsessive states come from. Philosopher Oksana Timofeeva carefully analyzes three clinical cases of Sigmund Freud and discovers in the depths of the human psyche an animal nature that is suppressed and trained. A horse is beaten, a rat is poisoned, a wolf is driven into a trap, a scapegoat is sacrificed – such is the mechanism of violence that permeates culture from its very origins to the present day. The heroes of this book are little Hans, the Wolf Man, the Rat Man, described by Freud, as well as Rodion Raskolnikov, Friedrich Nietzsche, King Oedipus, characters from European fairy tales, Greek and biblical myths. “Boys, you are animals” is a bold revision of the theory of psychoanalysis and relevant philosophical prose, offering a new perspective on mental reality.