ABSTRACT

Neural Geographies draws together recent feminist and deconstructive theories, early Freudian neurology and contemporary connectionist theories of cognition. In this original work, Elizabeth A. Wilson explores the convergence between Derrida, Freud and recent cognitive theory to pursue two important issues: the nature of cognition and neurology, and the politics of feminist and critical interventions into contemporary scientific psychology. This book seeks to reorient the usual presumptions of critical studies of the sciences by addressing the divisions between the static and the changeable; the natural and the political; the neuro-cognitive and the cultural that have been traditional to both scientific and critical accounts of neurology and cognition.

chapter |30 pages

Connectionism, Feminism, Deconstruction

chapter Chapter one|38 pages

The Natural Habits of Feminist Psychology

chapter Chapter two|34 pages

The Origins of Scientific Psychology

chapter Chapter three|30 pages

Morphologies of Mind

chapter Chapter four|34 pages

Projects for a Scientific Psychology

Freud, Derrida, and Connectionist Theories of Cognition

chapter Chapter five|32 pages

Locating Cognition

Force, Topography, and the Psychical Trace

chapter |9 pages

Conclusion

Critical and Cognitive Locations