At the same moment we are projecting human qualities onto our computers, we also tend to see humans as being nothing but machines programmed by evolution. This conception of the human mind has been in part produced by a pseudo-scientific rhetoric, which is bent on tracing all human thoughts and social processes to a biological foundation. In contrast, Freud’s version of psychoanalysis is a discourse that presents the conflict among biological, social, and psychological forces, and yet the recent turn to neuro-psychoanalysis often seeks to transform Freud’s theories into a strictly evolutionary model by repressing the important roles played by individual subjectivity, social reason, and mental autonomy. In fact, by turning the human into a biological machine, the difference between computers and humans is erased.

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Neuro-psychoanalysis and the Representation of Humans as Biological Machines

  • Robert Samuels

摘要

At the same moment we are projecting human qualities onto our computers, we also tend to see humans as being nothing but machines programmed by evolution. This conception of the human mind has been in part produced by a pseudo-scientific rhetoric, which is bent on tracing all human thoughts and social processes to a biological foundation. In contrast, Freud’s version of psychoanalysis is a discourse that presents the conflict among biological, social, and psychological forces, and yet the recent turn to neuro-psychoanalysis often seeks to transform Freud’s theories into a strictly evolutionary model by repressing the important roles played by individual subjectivity, social reason, and mental autonomy. In fact, by turning the human into a biological machine, the difference between computers and humans is erased.