La psyché démodée. Psychanalyse et objectivité sociale chez Adorno
The paper discusses the problem of the possible relation between psychoanalytic concepts and social critique in the perspective of Adorno's social thought. The title refers to Adorno's idea that psyche as individual spontaneity has now lost the weight it used to have in the liberal era. A...
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Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi
2014-06-01
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| description | The paper discusses the problem of the possible relation between psychoanalytic concepts and social critique in the perspective of Adorno's social thought. The title refers to Adorno's idea that psyche as individual spontaneity has now lost the weight it used to have in the liberal era. As a brief introductory remark, I clarify the status of theory for Adorno, i.e., the circularity between interpretation and description as grounded by the nature of the social object itself. Then I analyse his core idea of “social objectivity” as an impersonal mechanism which is at the same time produced by men and reified, heteronomous for them, and I argue that, for Adorno, the discontinuity existing between individual and society prevents an immediate shift of psychoanalytic concepts to the social world: the example of fascism clearly proves that the determining social forces today, while instrumentally exploiting deep psychical materials, are not themselves psychological. In the final part, I show how, for Adorno, psychology and sociology nevertheless need to be mediated with each other, while avoiding the superficial synthesis the so-called “revised psychoanalysis” aims to, and I point out some similarities between psychoanalytic practice and social critique as conceived by him. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9412bf384cbe4ef09b703d2cf7b4e3232022-12-22T01:45:11ZdeuAlexandru Ioan Cuza University of IasiMeta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy2067-36552067-36552014-06-01VI16797La psyché démodée. Psychanalyse et objectivité sociale chez AdornoGiovanni Zanotti0Università di PisaThe paper discusses the problem of the possible relation between psychoanalytic concepts and social critique in the perspective of Adorno's social thought. The title refers to Adorno's idea that psyche as individual spontaneity has now lost the weight it used to have in the liberal era. As a brief introductory remark, I clarify the status of theory for Adorno, i.e., the circularity between interpretation and description as grounded by the nature of the social object itself. Then I analyse his core idea of “social objectivity” as an impersonal mechanism which is at the same time produced by men and reified, heteronomous for them, and I argue that, for Adorno, the discontinuity existing between individual and society prevents an immediate shift of psychoanalytic concepts to the social world: the example of fascism clearly proves that the determining social forces today, while instrumentally exploiting deep psychical materials, are not themselves psychological. In the final part, I show how, for Adorno, psychology and sociology nevertheless need to be mediated with each other, while avoiding the superficial synthesis the so-called “revised psychoanalysis” aims to, and I point out some similarities between psychoanalytic practice and social critique as conceived by him.http://www.metajournal.org//articles_pdf/67-97-giovanni-tehno.pdfAdornoPsychoanalysisCritical TheorySocial ObjectivityIndividualSocietyDialecticFrankfurt SchoolFrommTotalitarianism |
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| title | La psyché démodée. Psychanalyse et objectivité sociale chez Adorno |
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| title_short | La psyché démodée. Psychanalyse et objectivité sociale chez Adorno |
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| topic | Adorno Psychoanalysis Critical Theory Social Objectivity Individual Society Dialectic Frankfurt School Fromm Totalitarianism |
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