Mowgli Syndrome
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Mowgli syndrome is a term used by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty in her 1995 book Other Peoples' Myths: The Cave of Echoes to describe mythological figures who succeed in bridging the animal and human worlds to become one with nature, a human animal, only to become trapped between the two worlds, not completely animal yet not entirely human.[1]
It is also a rarely used descriptive term for so-called feral children; "Mowgli syndrome" is not a recognized psychological or physiological malady. The term originates from the character Mowgli, a fictional feral child from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.
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- ^ Doniger O'Flaherty, Wendy (1995). Other Peoples' Myths: The Cave of Echoes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 75–96. ISBN 0226618579. http://books.google.com/books?id=nzIGfC7vevoC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA78#v=onepage&q=&f=false.
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