Negotiating neuroscience: LeDoux’s 'dramatic ensemble'
| Autor: | Vasi van Deventer, Clifford van Ommen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Subjectivity
Self media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology 06 humanities and the arts 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Homo economicus History and Philosophy of Science Différance 060302 philosophy Materiality (law) Mainstream 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology Surrender Ideology Neuroscience General Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Theory & Psychology. 26:572-590 |
| ISSN: | 1461-7447 0959-3543 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0959354316659555 |
| Popis: | Some argue we now live in a “brain society” in which our subjectivity is increasingly mediated through neurological discourses. Unless we are to surrender neuroscience to neoliberal colonisation, we need to articulate effective forms of engagement with this discipline. One route is to read mainstream neuroscience texts for resistances they offer to the homo economicus. Instead of a terrain that inevitably leads to neoliberal conclusions, we find a materiality in excess of dubious ideological circumscriptions. In this article we engage with Joseph LeDoux’s notion of the self as a “dramatic ensemble,” where the self is a vulnerable, constantly reiterated achievement marked by the partial and passing play of dominances. Simultaneously, however, LeDoux undermines this account by evoking a traditional notion of the self. This play of tensions is articulated and an argument is made to privilege a subjectivity which both resists LeDoux’s flight from his own implications and neoliberal assumptions of subjectivity. |
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