Golem
An excerpt from Biederman: "A mythical symbolic figure of a robot-like
being consisting of matter artificially brought to life and capable of
threatening its creator. Whereas Frankenstein's monster (in Mary Shelley's
novel of 1818) is supposedly put toget her from parts of human bodies,
the golem of Jewish myth is the product of a legendary act of creation
through language. 'Golem' literally means something like 'unformed material',
like Adam before his soul was breathed into him.[The legendary golem which
inspired fear in the heart of his master]can be understood as a warning
against the unthinking use of magical powers, which become too much for
us, making us lose contol" (156).
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