ADORNO'S SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: RESISTANCE TO THE VIOLENCE IN THE ADMINISTERED WORLD

Author(s)

Pedro Fernando Silva ^[1]

Affiliation

^[1] Universidade de São Paulo - Brasil

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: Psicologia & Sociedade; v. 27, n. 1, p. 35-46, 2015-04-00.

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to analyze the political potential of Theodor W. Adorno's social psychology, i.e., its capacity to resist in the face of the typical violence of the administered world. The current psychosocial mechanisms of domination, responsible for the integration of the regressed individuals to conditions of existence clearly contrary to the rational preservation of life, are to be understood in this paper. The adopted method for this analysis consists of the emphasis on the subject of this social psychology - post-psychological de-individualized social atoms - and on the update of its critique model. It is concluded that the continuity of the mechanisms of psychosocial integration responsible for the interception of the process of individuation replicates the totalitarian violence: the annihilation of the autonomous individual. Before this tragic historical tendency, Adorno's social psychology imposes itself as a praxis: it converts itself into resistance to the barbarousness. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 10/20900-8 - The introjection of the barbarism: mediations made by violence in the psychic constitution of the individual
• Grantee: Pedro Fernando da Silva
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants