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>The Critical Theory’s contribution to cope with the crisis of contemporary society<: The crisis of industrial society is analysed and clarified by the interdiciplinary categories of the critical theory of the Frankfurt school. This article will attempt to make evident, that in the case of economic, ecological, legitimatorical and psychological problems analysis would fall short of its aim, if it omitted the definition of >humanism< and a utopic model of subjectivity. The utopic messianic expression of hope for the individual is elaborated, even under alienated social structures, in the oeuvre of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse and Fromm. The problem of negativ thinking in opposition to an aspired positive utopia is discussed in order to create an theory of society-related, emancipated acting, which is based on educational aims and political alternatives. Fromms significance is demonstrated in connection with the oeuvre of the Frankfurt school without neglecting the differences. It is the author’s aim to define Fromm’s Analytic Social Psychology as one amongst several equally traditional lines of the Frankfurt school, by using theoretic examples. Differences, parallels and points of contact will be emphasized for a productive dialogue within these different traditional lines of thought of critical theory. A promising possibility for discussion, especially in the comparison between Marcuse and Fromm is indicated here.
Attentively reading Ferenczi's works and his scientific and ?auto-analytic? correspondence with Sigmund Freud, the author insists on the important contribution of the Hungarian psychoanalyst concerning the contemporary matter of the complex relations between biology and psychoanalysis: Ferenczi considered in fact that the unconscious was an occult phenomenon allowing an intersubjective thought-transference and was desperately searching for the material evidence of traumatic scenes and life events, reducing the psychical reality to body-writing. Freud was contrarily and prudently convinced that the unconscious processes were dependent on the materiality of the registration of the signifier, constituted by corporeal traces, but which had to be understood more in relation to language and speech phenomena than the reality of fallacious sensations.
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(2006)