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A Conference on Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis, FSP “Kritisches Denkenim Plural”Montag, den 18.11., findet eine Sitzung des Pôle 4 ("Kritisches Denken in Plural") um 18:00 Uhr im Georg-Simmel-Saal statt. Sie sind/ihr seid herzlich eingeladen.Conference in English - Comment by Jule Govrin (Flensburg/CMB)Psychoanalysis is central for Critical Theory. But the Freudiananthropology represents a challenge for a critical theory of society. Theconference addresses the question of what conception of emancipation, or progressin a forward-looking sense, is possible if we accept the postulate of the deathdrive.&#160;Amy Allen is Liberal Arts Professor of Philosophy andWomen’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Department Head at The PennsylvaniaState University. Her areas of research include the Critical Social Theory(especially Frankfurt School), the Feminist Theory, the Social and PoliticalTheory.She has published The Power of Feminist Theory: Domination, Resistance,Solidarity (1999), “Emancipation without Utopia:&#160; Subjection,Modernity, and the Normative Claims of Feminist Critical Theory,” Hypatia30: 3 (Summer 2015), The End of Progress: &#160;Decolonizing the NormativeFoundations of Critical Theory&#160;(Columbia University Press, 2016); CriticalTheory between Klein and Lacan: A Dialogue, co-authored with Mari Ruti(Bloomsbury, 2019).