Theodor Adorno with (and against) Jacques Lacan: A Reflection on the Meeting of Two Aesthetics

Summary

This article comprises an effort to establish sorne points of similarity between the reflections on aesthetics and art present in Jacques Lacan and Theodor Adorno's work. While in the first case the study accounts only for his 7th and 11th seminars, the second takes into account a wider bibliographic sphere; namely his "two dialectics" -the one from the forties and the one from 1966- and his Aesthetic Theory, publishedposthumously in 1970. Fundamentally, the article analyzes the role of what eludes representation in the constitution of any work of art.