CARINE GOMES CARDIM LASER

The objective of this work is to study the place of the drive (Trieb) in the philosophy of Theodor Adorno, focusing the discussion on the drive as an inner nature, and seeking to highlight this psychoanalytic concept that has few studies about in the Frankfurtian's work. It starts from the base idea on which Adorno perceives in the spirit of Kantian moral philosophy that subjects only stop being a piece of nature when they reflect on themselves and become aware of themselves as a piece of nature. Such an idea would not, however, have been realized by Kantian philosophy in its aversion to self-consciousness and its absolute rational model. Considering that this nature, which can be perceived by self-consciousness, is of the order of the somatic, or of the internal instinctual nature, we can consider the importance of this concept for Adornian philosophy and its conception of nature and freedom.