| The Human Animal | |
| Author: | Weston La Barre |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Psychology, culture |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
| Pub Date: | 1954 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages: | 371 |
| Isbn: | 0226467066 |
The Human Animal is a 1954 book by the anthropologist Weston La Barre, in which the author discusses the psychoanalytical approach to psychology and culture. The classicist Norman O. Brown described the book as the most significant attempt at creating a "general theory of language" through a synthesis of psychoanalysis with other disciplines.