Kludge Brain
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.201
12. > F r o m P s y c h o a n a l y s i s to the Neurosciences
Theoretical move: The passage argues that neuroscientific findings about the brain's non-unified, kludge-like, evolutionarily stratified architecture provide empirical support for the psychoanalytic emphasis on intrapsychical conflict and the split subject, while simultaneously insisting on a crucial gap between the neuroscientific (cognitive/preconscious) unconscious and the properly Freudian dynamic unconscious.
the human central nervous system is a 'kludge': 'The brain is . . . a kludge, . . . a design that is inefficient, inelegant, and unfathomable, but that nevertheless works'