Mozgovnjak i mozgovnjaštvo kao suvremeni oblik antropologije i psihologije osobnosti
Mozgovnjak (Brain, Cerebral Subject) and Mozgovnjaštvo (Brainhood), Contemporary Form of Anthropology and Personality Psychology

Summary/Abstract: 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).

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