Overview
- Relates Neoliberalism to the new brain sciences and psychoanalysis
- Articulates the formation of the Governmental University Medical Pharmaceutical complex
- Offers a new perspective on contemporary economics and politics
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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.
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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Keywords
- evolutionary psychology
- behavioural economics
- Governmental University Medical Pharmaceutical complex
- social discontent
- contemporary economics
- psychoanalysis
- political ideology
- political manipulation
- Neoliberalism
- Biological Determinism
- sigmund freud
- jacques lacan
- Technocratic Liberalism
- Welfare State
Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Psychoanalyzing the Politics of the New Brain Sciences
Authors: Robert Samuels
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71891-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71890-3Published: 26 January 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71891-0Published: 28 December 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 143
Topics: Critical Psychology, Economic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Cultural Policy and Politics, Political Theory