How Culture Runs the Brain: A Freudian View of Collective Syndromes

How Culture Runs the Brain: A Freudian View of Collective Syndromes

by Jay Evans Harris
How Culture Runs the Brain: A Freudian View of Collective Syndromes

How Culture Runs the Brain: A Freudian View of Collective Syndromes

by Jay Evans Harris

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Overview

Harris presents neuroscience findings and reveals fantasy as the brain’s default mode as it alters identity during unbearable trauma or loss. The book also presents case histories of cultural conflicts, and examines populist bias vs. elite global influence in a neuropsychoanalytic context.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781498562454
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication date: 07/31/2017
Series: Dialog-on-Freud
Pages: 286
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Jay Evans Harris, MD is clinical associate professor at New York Medical College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Contemporary Cultural Syndromes Chapter 2: The Cultural Regulation of identity Chapter 3: The Freudian Brain Chapter 4: How Mind Enters Trauma Chapter 5: From Gilgamesh: The Oldest Culture We Know Chapter 6: Darwin through Freud’s Eyes Chapter 7: From the Primal Horde to the Primal Scene Chapter 8: Freud’s Self-Specimen Chapter 9: Freud As Goethe Chapter 10: Modernism and Cultural Disciplines Chapter 11: Gender and Surrender: Lessons in Ego Identity Chapter 12: Freud’s Ambivalence about America Chapter 13: The Pretense of Cultural Leaders Chapter 14: The Evolution of Fantasy Chapter 15: Syndromes of Restitution and Retribution: The Tsarnaev Case Conclusion References
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