Psychoanalyzing the Politics of the New Brain Sciences

Robert Samuels (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

VII, 143 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-71890-3 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

This book argues that neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and behavioral economics often function as a political ideology masquerading as a new science. In looking at works by Antonio Damasio, Steven Pinker, Richard Thaler, Cas Sunstein, and John Tooby, Robert Samuels undertakes a close reading of the new brain sciences, and by turning to the works of Freud and Lacan, offers a counter-discourse to these new emerging sciences. He argues that an unintentional political manipulation of scientific thinking serves to repress the psychoanalytic conception of the unconscious and sexuality as it reinforces neoliberalism and promotes the drugging of discontent.
This innovative book is intended for those interested in science, psychoanalysis, and politics and offers a new definition of neoliberal subjectivity.

Robert Samuels has PhDs in English and Psychoanalysis. He teaches advanced writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He is the author of eleven books including Psychoanalyzing the Left and Right after Donald Trump and Educating Inequality (2016).

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Damasio's Error: The Politics of Biological Determinism after Freud.- Chapter 3. The Backlash Politics of Evolutionary Psychology: Pinker's Blank Slate.- Chapter 4. Behavioral Economics: Nudge and Technocratic Liberalism.- Chapter 5. The Brain Sciences Against the Welfare State.- Chapter 6. Drugging Discontent: Psychoanalysis, Drives and the Governmental University Medical Pharmaceutical Complex (GUMP).- Chapter 7. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.02.2018
Zusatzinfo	VII, 143 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	303 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
Schlagworte	Behavioural Economics • Biological Determinism • contemporary economics • Evolutionary Psychology • Governmental University Medical Pharmaceutical com • Governmental University Medical Pharmaceutical complex • Jacques Lacan • Neoliberalism • Political Ideology • political manipulation • Psychoanalysis • Sigmund Freud • social discontent • Technocratic Liberalism • Welfare State
ISBN-10	3-319-71890-8 / 3319718908
ISBN-13	978-3-319-71890-3 / 9783319718903
Zustand	Neuware