Marcuse and Adorno: Objectivity, Mediation, and One-Sidedness -Psychoanalysis in the Social Context of Modern Civilization

• Autor(a) principal: Williams, Lucas S.
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Colen, José
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/gaudiumsciendi.2013.2617

Sigmund Freud pioneered the exploration of the reality of unconscious instinctual drives that constitute the essence of the individual's personality and therefore of his behavior. Herbert Marcuse, basing himself primarily on Freud's theoretical conception, attempts in Eros and Civilization to both expose the existence and illustrate the workings of a capitalist civilization whose progress has been marked by domination and 'surplus-repression'. Theodor Adorno, however, in his essay Sociology and Psychology, argues that an attempt to derive the social totality in terms of the instinctual psychic personality is problematic, as this totality transcends the psyche and actually mediates it under its organization. In this paper we will contrast both approaches, based on some significant texts, and raise the problem of the method of Psychoanalysis and science in the social context of modern civilization. Our intention is to question the demarcation between philosophy and science in modern readings of Eros in Psychoanalysis.