Though most sensitive people have no trouble with this idea, scientists, Mr. The book's stated purpose is simple: to show that animals have feelings. Or perhaps the inevitable disappointment has yet to come. Or perhaps it is because he has finally found something to believe in that cannot possibly betray or disenchant him. Perhaps it is because he wrote this book with a co-author, Susan McCarthy, a science writer. Masson's most memorable traits - his righteous anger against the world's duplicity - seems to be missing. This is the drama of picking up "When Elephants Weep." But it is not the drama of reading it. So what is it that he is looking for in animals? Will they let him down? And how will he get his revenge? Masson is a serial debunker, first credulous and then raging at the deceit. His best-known books - "The Assault on Truth," "Against Therapy," "Final Analysis" and "My Father's Guru" - amount to a chronicle of his prodigious attachments and disenchantments: with Freud, with psychoanalysis itself and with the guru who lived with his family when he was a child. Masson has begged such a psychological reading. THE temptation in reading "When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals" is to ask the cheap psychological question: What impelled Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson to take up the defense of animal emotions now? In a sense Mr. By Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy.
From the Trade Paperback edition.WHEN ELEPHANTS WEEP The Emotional Lives of Animals. Forming a complete and compelling picture of the inner lives of animals,When Elephants Weepassures that we will never look at animals in the same way again.
Chapters on love, joy, anger, fear, shame, compassion, and loneliness are framed by a provocative re-evaluation of how we treat animals, from hunting and eating them to scientific experimentation. From dancing squirrels to bashful gorillas to spiteful killer whales, Masson and coauthor Susan McCarthy bring forth fascinating anecdotes and illuminating insights that offer powerful proof of the existence of animal emotion. Not since Darwin'sThe Expression of Emotions in Man and Animalshas a book so thoroughly and effectively explored the full range of emotions that exist throughout the animal kingdom. The popularity ofWhen Elephants Weephas swept the nation, as author Jeffrey Masson appeared onDateline NBC, Good Morning America,and was profiled inPeoplefor his ground-breaking and fascinating study. This national bestseller exploring the complex emotional lives of animals was hailed as "a masterpiece" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and as "marvelous" by Jane Goodall.
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