TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zanotti, Giovanni
T1  - La psyché démodée. Psychanalyse et objectivité sociale chez Adorno
T1  - The old-fashioned psyche: Adorno on psychoanalysis and
social objectivity
T2  - Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy
N2  - 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.
KW  - Adorno
KW  - Psychoanalysis
KW  - Critical Theory,
KW  - Social Objectivity
KW  - Individual
KW  - Society
KW  - Dialectic
KW  - Frankfurt School
KW  - Fromm
KW  - Totalitarianism
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/55411
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-554110
UR  - http://www.metajournal.org//articles_pdf/67-97-giovanni-tehno.pdf
SN  - 2067-3655
N1  - Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy is an online, open access journal. All articles of this journal are published under a Creative Commons Licence (Attribution-NoDerivs: CC BY-ND)
VL  - 6
IS  - 1
SP  - 67
EP  - 97
CY  - Iași
ER  -