Stručni rad
https://doi.org/10.22210/jezik.2023.70.09
Mozgovnjak (Brain, Cerebral Subject) and Mozgovnjaštvo (Brainhood), Contemporary Form of Anthropology and Personality Psychology
Goran Kardum
orcid.org/0000-0002-5766-361X
; Odsjek za psihologiju, Filozofski fakultet, Split
Sanda Ham
orcid.org/0000-0002-8113-9017
; Filozofski fakultet, Osijek
Sažetak
In recent times, neuroscience has been one of the fastest-growing scientific branches
with a noticeable influence on various scientific and professional areas of biomedicine as
well as on scientific and professional humanistic and social areas. Based on neuroscience,
many other scientific fields have emerged using the prefix neuro- in their names, such as
neuropsychology, neurolinguistics, neuroascesis, and neuroculture. The expansion of the
field of neuroscience has affected psychosocial, moral, and cultural values. Questions about
the functioning of neurons and of the brain have grown into questions and answers about
mental health and about humans in general. In short, to put it simply, the human being is
reduced to the brain, because everything we know, say, or do, everything that we really are
we are thanks to the brain. This has led us to the modern form of identity, for which the English-speaking world uses the term brainhood and which can be translated into the Croatian
language with the new word mozgovnjaštvo. The derived Croatian term for a cerebral
subject (brain) who is a representative of mozgovnjaštvo (brainhood) would be mozgovnjak.
Mozgovnjaštvo (brainhood) advocates the idea or belief that we are all that we are, or all
that we can be, thanks to the brain. Brainhood tends to place subjectivity somewhere in
the body and regards it as the result of exclusively neural mechanisms, separated from
anything social, human and religious. From the point of view of linguistics, mozgovnjak
and mozgovnjaštvo are new words that fit into the formation system of the modern Croatian
standard language. Mozgovnjak is a noun formed from an adjectival base using the suffix
-jak (combined with iotation), and mozgovnjaštvo is a noun formed from a noun stem with
the suffix -stvo (with a historical phonetic change: k + stvo > štvo).
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
311210
URI
Datum izdavanja:
10.5.2023.
Posjeta: 174 *