Neuronarratives of Affliction: Antidepressants, Neuropolitics and the 'Entrepreneur of Oneself'
| Autor: | Angel Martinez-Hernaez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Psychiatry
060101 anthropology Health (social science) Self Politics Commerce Neuropolitics 06 humanities and the arts General Medicine Consumption (sociology) Into-structure Antidepressive Agents 030227 psychiatry 03 medical and health sciences Psychiatry and Mental health Distress 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Anthropology Humans 0601 history and archaeology Psychology Social psychology Privilege (social inequality) |
| Zdroj: | Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry. 44:230-248 |
| ISSN: | 1573-076X 0165-005X |
| Popis: | The dramatic increase in the consumption of antidepressants is one indicator, among others, of the contemporary cerebralization of human affliction. This process has been led by expert systems, creating new biosocialities or neurosocialities, and new models of self as well: the neural self. While some research minimizes the neuro-colonization of the self and its impact on lay knowledge systems, here I argue that synergy between neuropolitics and figures characteristic of neoliberal governamentality such as the "entrepreneur of oneself" can give rise to an interiorized, cerebralized, centripetal, inwardly-oriented self. This paper, based on long-term fieldwork among consumers of antidepressants in Catalonia, analyses the emergence of neuronarratives of affliction (NoAs). NoAs privilege neurochemical dysfunction as the source of distress, shortcircuiting an awareness of the social sources of suffering while at the same time obscuring the fact of this concealment. NoAs transform the self into structure and reduce the social world to event. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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