Abstract
This article aims to investigate three possible logical contradictions in the essay “Sociology and Psychology” and in its “Postscript” - writings by Theodor Adorno. These contradictions, not dialectical, refer to the acceptance of the concept of "social psychology" by the author, to the implications of psychotherapy and to the division of academic work between sociology and psychology. Therefore, arguments that reveal the need for an “analytically oriented social psychology” in the face of the antagonistic relationship between individual and society were analyzed; the limits of the psychology of the individual as a monad were discussed; and, finally, we questioned the distinction between sociology’s and psychology’s object of study, as well as the objectivity of the separation between society and individual in the late capitalism that determinates the contradictions between these sciences.
Keywords:
Critical Theory; Analytically Oriented Social Psychology; Dialectic