Mowgli Syndrome

Mowgli Syndrome

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.

References

  1. ^ 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. 

See also

  • Feral children in mythology and fiction
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Books
Stories
Characters
Film adaptations
Jungle Book (1942) · , The Jungle Book (1967) · , Adventures of Mowgli (1967) · , Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1994) · , The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo (1997) · , Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book (1998) · , Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story (1998) · , The Jungle Book 2 (2003)
Television series
Jungle Book Shōnen Mowgli (episodes) · Jungle Cubs · The Jungle Book · TaleSpin ·
Disney songs
Video games
Related
The Third Jungle Book · Swedish play · Mowgli Syndrome



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