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Sigmund Freud thought smell related to animalistic behavior and was relevant in humans mostly in terms of behavioral pathology.

The Feyd-Rautha we see in the movie is less chatty and more frightening and animalistic than in the book.

“There’s this relationship with animal nature or animalistic instinct,” she said.

Legal precedent has excluded references to people as animalistic as “coded racist language,” Conrad pointed out.

To Walsh and other doctors behind the push to reject the diagnosis, those descriptions reflected age-old racist tropes of Black men as being stronger than white men or being animalistic.