Abstract:Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange is rarely considered in terms of psychopharmacology. Furthermore, the connection between the novel and the development of neuroscience—including the use of drugs that affect the brain—has yet to be considered. This essay explains the function and representation of drugs in the novel within the context of neuroscience’s development during the 1960s. I argue that the novel engages the dynamics among psychopharmacology, neuroscience, and psychiatry, and investigates how these specialties function within Western culture to mediate between dominant and subordinate divisions. As such, a neuroscientific reading of A Clockwork Orange articulates how counterculture perverts psychopharmacology, driving it away from the normalizing discourses of psychiatric power (as it is used to correct deviant mental states). Simultaneously, it demonstrates the failures of the politics of a reactionary, fear-based neuroscience. Ultimately, the novel both reflects on and intervenes in a critical biopolitical shift in regulating the brain.

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药物和药物：安东尼·伯吉斯的《发条橙》中的文化动力学、精神药理学和神经科学

摘要：安东尼·伯吉斯 (Anthony Burgess) 的《发条橙》在精神药理学方面很少被考虑。此外，小说与神经科学发展之间的联系——包括影响大脑的药物的使用——还有待考虑。这篇文章在 1960 年代神经科学发展的背景下解释了小说中药物的功能和表现。我认为这部小说涉及精神药理学、神经科学和精神病学之间的动态关系，并研究这些专业如何在西方文化中发挥作用，以在主导和从属部门之间进行调解。因此，对《发条橙》的神经科学解读阐明了反主流文化如何歪曲精神药理学，使其远离精神力量的正常化话语（因为它被用来纠正异常的精神状态）。同时，它展示了反动的、基于恐惧的神经科学政治学的失败。最终，这部小说既反映了又介入了调节大脑的关键生物政治转变。