Abstract
Cognitive Science Meets Psychoanalysis
Highlights
Few theorists launch themselves into this quarrel without clearly taking position on one side or the other
Even the most sophisticated analysts end up refusing to grant the ultimate legitimacy of the opposing side
What Mark Pizzato has done in Inner Theatres of Good and Evil: The Mind’s Staging of Gods, Angels and Devils (Pizzato, 2011) and in his previous work Ghosts of Theatre and Cinema in the Brain (Pizzato, 2006) is to give equal credit to the discoveries of cognitive science and those of cultural theory, psychoanalysis
Summary
Few theorists launch themselves into this quarrel without clearly taking position on one side or the other. The cognitive turn within the humanities represents an attempt to bridge the gap, but it does so clearly from the side of cognitive science, even though its practitioners are almost always cultural theorists. What Mark Pizzato has done in Inner Theatres of Good and Evil: The Mind’s Staging of Gods, Angels and Devils (Pizzato, 2011) and in his previous work Ghosts of Theatre and Cinema in the Brain (Pizzato, 2006) is to give equal credit to the discoveries of cognitive science and those of cultural theory, psychoanalysis.
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