02787nam 22006375 450 991025479520332120250311150736.09783319718910331971891610.1007/978-3-319-71891-0(CKB)4100000001381809(DE-He213)978-3-319-71891-0(MiAaPQ)EBC5210901(PPN)252631501(Perlego)3492817(EXLCZ)99410000000138180920171228d2017 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPsychoanalyzing the Politics of the New Brain Sciences /by Robert Samuels1st ed. 2017.Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2017.1 online resource (VII, 143 p.) Includes index.9783319718903 3319718908 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.Critical psychologyEconomicsPsychological aspectsPsychoanalysisCultural policyPolitical scienceCritical PsychologyEconomic PsychologyPsychoanalysisCultural Policy and PoliticsPolitical TheoryCritical psychology.EconomicsPsychological aspects.Psychoanalysis.Cultural policy.Political science.Critical Psychology.Economic Psychology.Psychoanalysis.Cultural Policy and Politics.Political Theory.150.19Samuels Robertauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut614320BOOK9910254795203321Psychoanalyzing the Politics of the New Brain Sciences1568316UNINA