Exploring the intersection of neuroscience and identity, the book reveals how the brain defaults to fantasy during extreme trauma or loss. It includes case histories that highlight cultural conflicts and delves into the dynamics between populist biases and elite global influences, all framed within a neuropsychoanalytic perspective.
Dr. Harris here provides a Rosetta Stone for exploring neural networks, mental hubs, mind/brain synthesis--and institutions that externalize these structures. Extending Freud's discovery of a person's dynamic unconscious, he depicts a dynamic social unconscious mediating social, economic, and political policy. From this perspective he presents contemporary and historical social syndromes.