Do individual e do coletivo: Sobre aproximações entre o pensamento de Freud e Marx

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to discuss the theoretical approach between two distinct strands of thought that initially may seem unlikely: psychoanalysis and Marxism. The text is about the reflection of the political genesis of the problem, interpreting society and individual as the interrelationship of human nature, connecting from this principle, the political problem and the psychological problem that is standing as the original basis of that. Therefore, the intersection of society, political power and human nature, it expands a field of research that opens several possibilities, including the theoretical approach between the ideas of Marx and Freud. Among several authors who discuss the freudomarxismo and positioning of Sigmund Freud on the ideas of Karl Marx will be given exclusivity to Wilhelm Reich, Herbert Marcuse and Ludwig Marcuse. For a critique of ideas of Herbert Marcuse and analysis of the inter-relationship between Marxism and psychoanalysis, in turn, refers to the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser and other analysts and critics of those ideas.