Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis

The first issue of Dissonância: Revista de Teoria Crítica [Dissonância: Critical Theory Journal] will accept submissions of articles until February 15th, 2016 that have as their subject Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalysis has a major role in Critical Theory since 1930 (specially with Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse), a relevance that can be also measured in its most recent developments with the works of Jürgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, Judith Butler among others).

Nevertheless, this discipline has no fixed position among the various disciplinary constellations that can be found in the history of Critical Theory: critical models stem from various sources (such as Sigmund Freud, Donald Winnicott, George Herbert Mead) or, if from the same source, they set forward different interpretations of each author and psychoanalytical concept.

Moreover each critical model attributes to psychoanalysis a particular relevance in its disciplinary framework. This encompasses a wide and diverse appropriation of psychoanalytical concepts that each author accomplishes in her or his own diagnosis of time.

It is to this rich relation between Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis the first issue of Dissonância is dedicated.

Our intention is to gather articles which aim to understand how Critical Theory has appropriated or still appropriates psychoanalysis and how psychoanalysis may contribute to a diagnosis of the present.