Adopting as a starting point the reference made by Horkheimer and Adorno in Elements of Anti-Semitism: limits of enlightenment, to the text of Freud named The Uncanny, this work intends to establish some points of contact between them in the important field of studies dedicated to the phenomenon of prejudice. In these terms, it proposes an ethics and aesthetics of alterity that, privileging the dissonance of a strange familiarity, valorize negativeness instead of a positive philosophy whose lights can conduce to absolute totalitarian blindness. The aim here resides in the possibility that, when remitting to the fractures of men's contact to what he takes for real, this movement rescues a tragicity that resists to be appropriated by the longings of dominion and representative commodity adopted both by instrumental reason and by the speeches of intolerance to differences.
ethics; aesthetics; alterity; psychoanalysis; critical theory