"In some extreme cases, this theory that culture shapes the way science is conducted is right. In the mid-19th century, physicians discovered that slaves suffered from drapetomania, or the uncontrollable urge to escape from slavery..."
Magic, alchemy and the occult are thus keys that allow entry into certain zones of the Fantastic. More important, they drive the intellectual engine of the Fantastic; even as they wane, they preside over the gestation of science fiction.
Monstrosity, once experienced as prodigious, held in awe, fell sway to biomedical experimentation's rational labeling of the freak, but failed to kill off dread, age of anxiety's theme.
Unicorn & dragon, griffon & sea serpent, & all relations, take refuge in folklore, until the fantastic & surrealistic release them into literary discourse from older prisons of rational inquiry.
The coordinated interplay between neural activity in the amygdala and other brain regions, especially the medial prefrontal cortex, the occipitofrontal cortex, the fusiform gyrus, and the superior temporal sulcus, allows us to develop social responses...
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