Psychoanalyzing the Politics of the New Brain Sciences

1. Introduction
Robert Samuels

2. Damasio’s Error: The Politics of Biological Determinism After Freud
Robert Samuels

3. The Backlash Politics of Evolutionary Psychology: Steven Pinker’s Blank Slate

Robert Samuels

4. Behavioral Economics: Nudge and Technocratic Liberalism
Robert Samuels

5. The Brain Sciences Against the Welfare State
Robert Samuels

6. Drugging Discontent: Psychoanalysis, Drives, and the Governmental University Medical Pharmaceutical Complex (GUMP)
Robert Samuels

7. Conclusion
Robert Samuels

Keywords: Psychology, Critical Psychology, Economic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Cultural Policy and Politics, Political Theory