03081nam 22006015 450 991025479520332120200706165259.03-319-71891-610.1007/978-3-319-71891-0(CKB)4100000001381809(DE-He213)978-3-319-71891-0(MiAaPQ)EBC5210901(PPN)252631501(EXLCZ)99410000000138180920171228d2017 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPsychoanalyzing the Politics of the New Brain Sciences /by Robert Samuels1st ed. 2017.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Pivot,2017.1 online resource (VII, 143 p.) Includes index.3-319-71890-8 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 psychologyEconomics—Psychological aspectsPsychoanalysisCultural policyPolitical theoryCritical Psychologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Y20170Economic Psychologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Y20230Psychoanalysishttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/H54026Cultural Policy and Politicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411120Political Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911010Critical psychology.Economics—Psychological aspects.Psychoanalysis.Cultural policy.Political theory.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