ABSTRACT:
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.
Keywords:
Childhood; faculties of thought; love. Theodor W. Adorno. Critical Theory of Society