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Neuronal Fantasies : Reading Neuroscience with Schreber

In English

Författare

Redaktör

  • Liljefors Max
  • Lundin Susanne
  • Wiszmeg Andréa

Summary, in English

This essay examines the aesthetics and rhetoric through which popular science delivers the message of brain-mind conflation—‘You are your brain’. Noting the entwinement of realist and imaginary visual tropes in popular scientific presentations of brain imaging, author seeks a correlative ‘counter-text’ to this discourse in one of the classic texts in psychiatric history, the memoirs of the paranoid nineteenth-century judge, Daniel Paul Schreber. In this juxtaposition of contemporary neuroscience and a century-old insider report from madness, the author sees two opposite fantasies about the biologization of the mind. In the end, Schreber’s is deemed the most ‘realist’, since his delusions highlight precisely the blind spots of popular neuroscience today, especially the eclipse of societal, collective meaning in strictly biologistic explanations of the mind.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2012

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

143-169

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

The Atomized Body. The Cultural Life of Stem Cells, Genes and Neurons

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

Nordic Academic Press

Ämne

  • Art History

Nyckelord

  • Schreber
  • brain science
  • visualization
  • art history
  • scientific visualization

Status

Published

Projekt

  • BAGADILICO – Excellence in Parkinson and Huntington Research

Forskningsgrupp

  • The Cultural Studies Group of Neuroscience

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 978-91-87121-92-0