In 1907, the Swiss psychiatrist, neuroanatomist, and social reformer Auguste Forel (1848–1931) characterized neurobiology as “a science of the human in man” and as “the basis of the object of the highest human knowledge which can be reached in the future” and depicted its growth as the condition for social progress (quoted in Hagner 2001, 553).
Inspired by the homonymous book by Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega, this timespace presents the authors' genealogy of the cerebral subject and the influence of the neurological discourse in human sciences, mental health and culture.