“Beyond the Gender Principle” – Horkheimer and Adorno on the Problem of Gender and Identification
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2318-9800.v22i2p135-151Keywords:
gender relations, femininity, identification, mastery of nature, Dialectic of Enlightenment.Abstract
This article investigates the role of gender in Critical Theory and demonstrates how centrally Horkheimer and Adorno refer to gender relations when dealing with the problem of subjectivation, identification and mastery of nature. Horkheimer’s interpretation of early childhood identification is based on a dialectical theory of domination that involves a thorough critique of Freud’s conceptualization of the Oedipus complex. From there I proceed to an assessment of a particular notion of femininity as a social construct that reveals the social antagonism and simultaneously serves as the foil for a negative utopia.Downloads
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