'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世纪带来了一种盎格鲁的美国“迷幻文艺复兴”，一种适应性药物和文化重新 - 以迷幻药物为中心，其潜在的滋养心理病理学，例如抑郁症和ADHD。我项目的假设是，当今迷幻医学的叙事是关于自我的新自由主义和神经科学上的遗物，即，通过消耗药理学剂，一个人可以使自己变得更能或对社会做出更好的贡献，以及它们在大脑中的自我互动的互动思想。 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和Shalin，1985； Grunenberg，2005； Roberts，2012）。其次，它偏离了有关当今精神疗法的心理前景的纯粹科学文献（Halberstadt等，2018）。我的建议研究偏离了这些探究范围，希望将当今对迷幻的医学兴趣的历史性化，并注意其促进的自我的构造。我的目标是回答各种问题。在20世纪末和21世纪初，在迷幻药中的吸毒者，激进主义者，政客和科学家的语言在多大程度上表明朝着动脉科学/新自由主义的自我转移？ “精神病学”一词在对自我和迷幻药的理解中的承销转变的含义背后的历史磁通在多大程度上？