The dramatic increase in the consumption of antidepressants is one indicator, among others, of the contemporary cerebralization of human affliction. This process has been led by expert systems, creating new biosocialities or neurosocialities, and new models of self as well: the neural self. While some research minimizes the neuro-colonization of the self and its impact on lay knowledge systems, here I argue that synergy between neuropolitics and figures characteristic of neoliberal governamentality such as the "entrepreneur of oneself" can give rise to an interiorized, cerebralized, centripetal, inwardly-oriented self. This paper, based on long-term fieldwork among consumers of antidepressants in Catalonia, analyses the emergence of neuronarratives of affliction (NoAs). NoAs privilege neurochemical dysfunction as the source of distress, shortcircuiting an awareness of the social sources of suffering while at the same time obscuring the fact of this concealment. NoAs transform the self into structure and reduce the social world to event.

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痛苦的神经叙事：抗抑郁药，神经政治学和“自己的企业家”。

抗抑郁药的消耗量的急剧增加是当今人类苦难的大脑化的一个指标。这个过程由专家系统领导，创建了新的生物社会或神经社会，以及新的自我模型：神经自我。虽然一些研究将自我的神经殖民化及其对外行知识系统的影响降至最低，但我在这里认为，神经政治与新自由主义政府特征人物之间的协同作用（例如“自我企业家”）可以产生内在化，大脑化，向心性，内向型的自我。本文基于加泰罗尼亚抗抑郁药消费者的长期实地调查，分析了痛苦神经叙事（NoAs）的出现。NoAs特权神经化学功能障碍是困扰的根源，在使人们不了解苦难的社会根源的同时，掩盖了这种隐瞒的事实。NoAs将自我转化为结构，并将社会世界简化为事件。