A sociedade unidimensional e a produção da subjetividade humana

Abstract

The author bases her study on Marcuse Theoretical framework to demonstrate the importance of human subjectivity dimension as an indispensable element to his process of liberation and emancipation. She analyses the repressive procedures developed in modem society, presenting the question of the subjetivity manipulation as the predominant means of social domination. The author describes the main characteristics of this society and the changes inflicted by those same characteristic upon the human psychic structure. Finally, she proposes an emphasis be put on the value of the subjetive aspect in History as onfe of the essential elements, inclusive to the Psychoogy, to the consciousness raising of the individual in his struggle for an emancipative "praxis'.