BRUNO CARVALHO RODRIGUES DE FREITAS

This research intends to study the presence of the notion of suffering in Theodor Adorno 's project of criticism of culture and society, as well as the relations with his reading of psychoanalysis. In this sense, it will discuss the hypothesis that in this critical project one can find as axis a critical impulse of experiences of suffering. If in the texts such as the Negative Dialectic (1967) and the Aesthetic Theory (1969) the notion of suffering appears more clearly - as in the reflection on the mutilation of the bodies at Auschwitz and on the authentic art that gives voice to the historical accumulation of suffering when As the cipher of an emancipated world-in Adorno's earlier production, with the exception of Minima Moralia (1951) - a book in which suffering was the starting point for reflections on the processes of mutilation of life - the notion of suffering remained, At first glance, marginal: subjects such as the processes of rationalization of society organized by the commodity form, the discussion of cultural industry, as well as the thesis on the relapse of enlightenment in myth and a phenomenology of the genesis of modern reason received more attention. It is intended