Anette Kristensson doctoral thesis. Illustration: Johannes Stjärne Nilsson

Anette Kristeinsson says that her ambition with the thesis is from an interdisciplinary perspective to analyze the similar positions of the child and the animal in relation to what we, both in the philosophical tradition and in the general consciousness, think as man.
-  The adult man is defined as a sensible, linguistic, social and culturally well-adapted creature. The child, like the animal, is often considered as if it was closer to nature than the culture. On the way to becoming a civilized adult human subject, the child leaves both the "childish" and "animal" behind, as something it should come across, past and develop from.

Anette Kristensson doctoral thesis (English abstract).