THE FACULTIES OF MIMESE, IMAGINATION AND MEMORY IN CHILDHOOD: THE INTERTWINING OF LOVE AND THOUGHT
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Childhood, faculties of thought, love, Theodor W. Adorno, Critical Theory of SocietyAbstract
The purpose of this article is to present the results of the research on the intertwining of
love and thought in childhood in Theodor W. Adorno, whose faculties of mimesis, imagination and
memory mark childhood as an experience of a different order of reason, more mimetic, imaginative,
which feeds the memory of nature in the human, yet without being exempt from the coercive historical
forces that constitute the objective conditions of life. The analysis of the concepts of mimesis,
imagination and memory in their relations with childhood and with the instinctual basis that allows the
movement of love, based on Adorno and his interlocutors of the Critical Theory of Society, especially
Walter Benjamin, and in Freudian Psychoanalysis. These faculties operate in thought through psychic
mechanisms of defense of consciousness that intertwine the most primitive processes of human nature
to the development of the higher processes that culture enables.
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