TY - BOOK ID - 31329858 TI - Psychoanalyzing the Politics of the New Brain Sciences PY - 2017 SN - 3319718916 3319718908 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, DB - UniCat KW - Psychoanalysis. KW - Neurosciences. KW - Evolutionary psychology. KW - Psychology. KW - Political theory. KW - Critical psychology. KW - Critical Psychology. KW - Economic Psychology. KW - Cultural Policy and Politics. KW - Political Theory. KW - Psychology KW - Psychology, Pathological KW - Human evolution KW - Neural sciences KW - Neurological sciences KW - Neuroscience KW - Medical sciences KW - Nervous system KW - Economics—Psychological aspects. KW - Cultural policy. KW - Administration KW - Civil government KW - Commonwealth, The KW - Government KW - Political theory KW - Political thought KW - Politics KW - Science, Political KW - Social sciences KW - State, The KW - Intellectual life KW - State encouragement of science, literature, and art KW - Culture KW - Popular culture KW - Psychology, Critical KW - Communism and psychology KW - Government policy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:31329858 AB - 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. ER -