scholarly journals Diálogos disyuntivos. Psicoanálisis y Teoría Crítica

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-22
Author(s):  
Pablo Cabrera ◽  
Danilo Sanhueza
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Herbert Marcuse ◽  
Axel Honneth ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Theoretical Performance

Este artículo examina, en primer lugar, el lugar de lo social y la cultura en los escritos de Sigmund Freud y Jacques Lacan. A continuación, se reconstruyen los esfuerzos de diálogo entre Teoría Crítica y Psicoanálisis elaborados por Herbert Marcuse y Axel Honneth. Finalmente se destacan algunos criterios y problemas que permitan situar en distintos planos a los rendimientos teóricos del cruce entre teoría crítica y psicoanálisis. -- This article examines, first, the place of the social and culture in the writings of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. Next, the dialogue efforts between Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis elaborated by Herbert Marcuse and Axel Honneth are reconstructed. Finally, some criteria and problems are highlighted that allow the theoretical performance of the cross between critical theory and psychoanalysis to be placed on different levels.

scholarly journals El sujeto en la frontera. Theodor Adorno, Joel Whitebook y el legado de Freud / The subject on the boundary. Theodor Adorno, Joel Whitebook and the legacy of Freud

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Gustavo M. Robles
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sociological Concept

<p>El objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar la crítica al concepto racionalista de subjetividad de Theodor Adorno y Joel Whitebook a partir de su reapropiación de ciertos motivos naturalistas de la obra de Sigmund Freud. Estos autores representan una corriente alternativa dentro de la teoría crítica que busca en Freud un concepto dual y no reductible a lo sociológico de sujeto en la frontera entre lo racional y lo natural, entre lo social-lingüístico y lo pulsional, entre el Yo socialmente constituido y lo Ello. Como pretendo mostrar en las siguientes líneas, Freud es para ellos la llave teórica para descentrar al sujeto y para rearticular formas más amplias y no autoritarias de subjetividad.</p><p><strong>Palabras clave:</strong> sujeto, Teoría Crítica, Psicoanálisis, Adorno, Whitebook</p><p> </p><p class="Ttulo21"><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>The aim of this paper is to analyze the criticism of a rationalist concept of subjectivity carried out by Theodor Adorno and Joel Whitebook considering their naturalistic reading of Freud´s work. Both authors represent an alternative stream within the critical theory that seeks in Freud a dual and non-sociological concept of the subject located on the boundary between the rational and the natural, the social-linguistic and the drives, the socially constituted Ego and the untamed Id. I pretend to show in the following lines that Freud is for them the key to criticize a self-centered subject and to imagine post-idealistic and non-authoritarian forms of subjectivity. </p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong><em> </em>subject, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, Adorno, Whitebook</p>

scholarly journals Where is critical theory? Eurocentrism and marginalization in European and American Critical Theory

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Arnold Farr
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Herbert Marcuse ◽  
Ivory Tower ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
The Real ◽  
Theory Of Education ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Comfort ◽  
Critical Theorist

In this paper I will examine the marginalization of certain forms of critical theory in US.  I will argue that the real Great Refusals have been refused by much of what calls itself critical theory.  What gets accepted as critical theory in the academy is often connected to the social position of those doing the theory.  That is, quite often critical theory is constructed by those who enjoy a certain degree of social comfort and have created a gap between themselves and the “wretched of the earth” who suffer daily.  Critical Theory becomes Ivory Tower theorizing.  Finally, I will argue that Herbert Marcuse was a critical theorist who tried to stay connected to those who suffer.  I will make some proposals based on Herbert Marcuse’s critical theory of education, the black feminist framework of intersectionality, and what I call democratic attunement.

scholarly journals Two attempts at grounding social critique in „ordinary“ actors’ perspectives: The critical theories of Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-50
Author(s):  
Marjan Ivkovic
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Axel Honneth ◽  
The Social ◽  
Normative Criteria ◽  
Nancy Fraser ◽  
Normative Foundations

This paper analyzes two contemporary, ?third-generation? perspectives within critical theory - Nancy Fraser?s and Axel Honneth?s - with the aim of examining the degree to which the two authors succeed in grounding the normative criteria of social critique in the perspectives of ?ordinary? social actors, as opposed to speculative social theory. To that end, the author focuses on the influential debate between Fraser and Honneth Redistribution or Recognition? which concerns the appropriate normative foundations of a ?post-metaphysical? critical theory, and attempts to reconstruct the fundamental 29 disagreements between Fraser and Honneth over the meaning and tasks of critical theory. The author concludes that both critical theorists ultimately secure the normative foundations of critique through substantive theorizations of the social, which frame the two authors? ?reconstructions? of the normativity of everyday social action, but argues that post-metaphysical critical theory does not have to abandon comprehensive social theory in order to be epistmologically ?non-authoritarian?.

Music and Psychoanalysis

2018 ◽  
pp. 111-126
Author(s):  
Sander L. Gilman
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Evolutionary Model ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Base Line ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Normal Human ◽  
Different Levels

When theories of the psyche approach music, the question of the embodiment of music becomes a means of understanding the nature of both music and the psyche. Within psychoanalysis there are three quite different levels of analysis that play a role: the first is therapeutic and asks, “how can we cure aspects of the psyche that have come to make life difficult?” The second looks at the base line of normal human development through an evolutionary model. The third level examines the development of the social structures in which human beings interact as a reflex of their inner lives. It thus examines what Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) labeled “civilization,” a term he made quite fraught in all of its manifestations. Music (and its corollary, listening) functions at all three levels in complex and often contradictory ways in the history of psychoanalysis.

Ways and Voices in the Psychoanalysis of Links According to Enrique Pichon-Rivière

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosa Jaitin
Keyword(s):  
Couple Therapy ◽  
Clinical Observation ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Different Levels

This article covers several stages of the work of Pichon-Rivière. In the 1950s he introduced the hypothesis of "the link as a four way relationship" (of reciprocal love and hate) between the baby and the mother. Clinical work with psychosis and psychosomatic disorders prompted him to examine how mental illness arises; its areas of expression, the degree of symbolisation, and the different fields of clinical observation. From the 1960s onwards, his experience with groups and families led him to explore a second path leading to "the voices of the link"—the voice of the internal family sub-group, and the place of the social and cultural voice where the link develops. This brought him to the definition of the link as a "bi-corporal and tri-personal structure". The author brings together the different levels of the analysis of the link, using as a clinical example the process of a psychoanalytic couple therapy with second generation descendants of a genocide within the limits of the transferential and countertransferential field. Body language (the core of the transgenerational link) and the couple's absences and presence during sessions create a rhythm that gives rise to an illusion, ultimately transforming the intersubjective link between the partners in the couple and with the analyst.

Value-driven issues throughout the development of sociological theory

2020 ◽  
pp. 147-160
Author(s):  
Gulbarshyn Chepurko ◽  
Valerii Pylypenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social System ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Different Levels

The paper examines and compares how the major sociological theories treat axiological issues. Value-driven topics are analysed in view of their relevance to society in times of crisis, when both societal life and the very structure of society undergo dramatic change. Nowadays, social scientists around the world are also witnessing such a change due to the emergence of alternative schools of sociological thought (non-classical, interpretive, postmodern, etc.) and, subsequently, the necessity to revise the paradigms that have been existed in sociology so far. Since the above-mentioned approaches are often used to address value-related issues, building a solid theoretical framework for these studies takes on considerable significance. Furthermore, the paradigm revision has been prompted by technological advances changing all areas of people’s lives, especially social interactions. The global human community, integral in nature, is being formed, and production of human values now matters more than production of things; hence the “expansion” of value-focused perspectives in contemporary sociology. The authors give special attention to collectivities which are higher-order units of the social system. These units are described as well-organised action systems where each individual performs his/her specific role. Just as the role of an individual is distinct from that of the collectivity (because the individual and the collectivity are different as units), so too a distinction is drawn between the value and the norm — because they represent different levels of social relationships. Values are the main connecting element between the society’s cultural system and the social sphere while norms, for the most part, belong to the social system. Values serve primarily to maintain the pattern according to which the society is functioning at a given time; norms are essential to social integration. Apart from being the means of regulating social processes and relationships, norms embody the “principles” that can be applied beyond a particular social system. The authors underline that it is important for Ukrainian sociology to keep abreast of the latest developments in the field of axiology and make good use of those ideas because this is a prerequisite for its successful integration into the global sociological community.

The methods of a research of processes of spontaneous socialization based on post-nonclassical approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (10) ◽  
pp. 4-8
Author(s):  
Raschetina S.A.
Keyword(s):  
Social Reality ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Search Method ◽  
Detailed Design ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Cross

The detailed design implemented according to a grant of the Russian Federal Property Fund is focused on the solution of the cross-disciplinary humanitarian problem connected with the analysis of purposeful and sponta-neous processes of socialization of the child, and specif-ic characteristics of the social and pedagogical activity aimed at harmonization of the relations "the child - so-ciety" in modern unstable public conditions. The frag-ment of a research of processes of spontaneous sociali-zation of the child connected with the estimated dis-course presented in a social situation of its development is reflected in article. In it short characteristic of the post-nonclassical methodology focused on the analysis of chaotic conditions of social reality and essence of the person who acts as the language personality who is not existing "to language" is presented. Possibilities of post-nonclassical methodology in a research of a phenome-non purposeful - spontaneous socialization of the child are characterized. In article the specifics of the social and pedagogical activity aimed at harmonization of the relations "the child - society are disclosed from a posi-tion of post-nonclassical approach", the place of a re-search method in its structure is revealed.

“Da mágoa, sem reméDio, De perDer-te”: o luto como trabalho Da linguagem na poesia De camões

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Genelhu Fagundes
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Maurice Blanchot

Ao abordar a arte, especifcamente a poesia, como meio (espaço e ato) de resistência, este ensaioparte de duas constatações e de uma confssão. As constatações: (1) para além de todo poder deordem histórica, de todo instrumento de coerção, seja político, econômico, ideológico, moralou cultural a que o homem esteja submetido e deva resistir, está a certeza da fnitude -- a sua ea daqueles que ama. Também (sobretudo, talvez) diante da consciência dessa condição mortalque limita, oprime e fere o humano, cabe resistir. O luto, como modo de lidar com a morte, é,portanto, ato de resistência; (2) Se a resistência se organiza no campo da arte, ela deve se valerdas armas próprias dessa linguagem, pelo que aqui importa, tanto quanto a temática abordadana poesia elegíaca de Camões, a forma poética como elaboração de um trabalho de luto. A confssão: este texto é em si mesmo um trabalho de luto, que se vale do exercício de pensamentopróprio do ensaio como forma para elaborar a perda que motiva sua escritura. A partir dessespressupostos e desse lugar de fala, realiza-se nas páginas que seguem uma leitura atenta de trêssonetos camonianos que compõem o assim chamado ciclo a Dinamene, pondo-os em diálogocom as reflexões de Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan e Jean Allouch sobre o luto, bem como coma teoria de Maurice Blanchot sobre a linguagem, que a concebe como trabalho de luto.

The Politics of Global Health Inequalities

2019 ◽  
pp. 58-84
Author(s):  
Yusra Ribhi Shawar ◽  
Jennifer Prah Ruger
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Health Inequality ◽  
The Political ◽  
State Of Health ◽  
Political Determinants ◽  
The Social

Careful investigations of the political determinants of health that include the role of power in health inequalities—systematic differences in health achievements among different population groups—are increasing but remain inadequate. Historically, much of the research examining health inequalities has been influenced by biomedical perspectives and focused, as such, on ‘downstream’ factors. More recently, there has been greater recognition of more ‘distal’ and ‘upstream’ drivers of health inequalities, including the impacts of power as expressed by actors, as well as embedded in societal structures, institutions, and processes. The goal of this chapter is to examine how power has been conceptualised and analysed to date in relation to health inequalities. After reviewing the state of health inequality scholarship and the emerging interest in studying power in global health, the chapter presents varied conceptualisations of power and how they are used in the literature to understand health inequalities. The chapter highlights the particular disciplinary influences in studying power across the social sciences, including anthropology, political science, and sociology, as well as cross-cutting perspectives such as critical theory and health capability. It concludes by highlighting strengths and limitations of the existing research in this area and discussing power conceptualisations and frameworks that so far have been underused in health inequalities research. This includes potential areas for future inquiry and approaches that may expand the study of as well as action on addressing health inequality.

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