'Psychedelic Selves': Neoliberalism, Neuroscience, and the British Psychedelic Renaissance

“迷幻的自我”：新自由主义、神经科学和英国迷幻文艺复兴

• 批准号: 2749708
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2749708
• 关键词: Psychedelic; Selves; Neoliberalism; Neuroscience; British

The 21st century has brought with it an Anglo-American 'Psychedelic Renaissance', apsychopharmacological and cultural re-fascination with psychedelic drugs centring on their potential totreat psychological pathologies such as depression and ADHD. The hypothesis of my project is thatbehind the narrative of psychedelic medicine today lies identifiably neoliberal and neuroscientificassumptions regarding the Self, namely that via consumption of pharmacological agents one canimprove oneself or contribute better to society, and the interacting idea that they act on a Selfexclusively located in the brain. Its aim is to historicise this paradigm in the British context, from the endof the counterculture up to the present (1974-).My project departs from a historiography that hitherto has focused on earlier chapters in psychedelichistory, namely the initial incarnation of psychedelic therapy in the 1950s (Melechi, 1997; Dyck, 2008),and the countercultural drug use that led to its criminalisation (Lee and Shalin, 1985; Grunenberg, 2005;Roberts, 2012). Secondly, it departs from a purely scientific literature on the psychological prospects ofpsychedelic therapy today (Halberstadt et al., 2018). Departing from these lines of enquiry, my proposedresearch hopes to historicise today's reinvigorated medical interest in psychedelics, with attention to theconfiguration of the Self it promotes.I aim to answer various questions. To what extent did the language of drug-users, activists, politicians,and scientists around psychedelics in the late 20th and early 21st centuries indicate a shift towards aneuroscientific/neoliberal Self? To what extent did the historical flux behind the meaning of the term'psychedelics' underwrite shifts in the understanding of the Self and psychedelics?

21 世纪带来了英美“迷幻药复兴”，人们对迷幻药在精神药理学和文化上重新产生了兴趣，重点关注其治疗抑郁症和多动症等心理疾病的潜力。我的项目的假设是，当今迷幻医学的叙述背后显然存在着关于自我的新自由主义和神经科学假设，即通过服用药物，一个人可以改善自己或为社会做出更好的贡献，以及它们作用于大脑中专属的自我的相互作用的想法。其目的是在英国背景下历史化这一范式，从反主流文化结束至今（1974-）。我的项目从历史学出发，迄今为止，该史学主要关注迷幻故事的早期章节，即 20 世纪 50 年代迷幻治疗的最初体现（Melechi，1997；Dyck，2008），以及导致其定罪的反文化药物使用 （Lee 和 Shalin，1985；Grunenberg，2005；Roberts，2012）。其次，它背离了当今迷幻疗法心理前景的纯科学文献（Halberstadt et al., 2018）。与这些调查路线不同，我提出的研究希望能够历史化当今对迷幻药重新燃起的医学兴趣，并关注它所促进的自我配置。我的目标是回答各种问题。 20 世纪末和 21 世纪初吸毒者、活动家、政治家和科学家围绕迷幻剂的语言在多大程度上表明了向神经科学/新自由主义自我的转变？ “迷幻药”一词含义背后的历史变迁在多大程度上导致了对自我和迷幻药的理解的转变？