Robert Samuels 
Psychoanalyzing the Politics of the New Brain Sciences [PDF ebook] 

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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.


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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.

Despre autor

Robert Samuels has Ph Ds 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).

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Limba Engleză ● Format PDF ● Pagini 143 ● ISBN 9783319718910 ● Mărime fișier 2.1 MB ● Editura Springer International Publishing ● Oraș Cham ● Țară CH ● Publicat 2017 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 5578479 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor DRM social

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