Among many other elements, the diagnosis of time underlying the Dialectic of Enlightenment pointed to the lost of centrality of political economy in the interdisciplinary arrangement of Critical Theory, implying also the need for a new basis for critique itself. Under this aspect the main consequence was the emergence of a peculiar anthropology – understood in terms of a transformation of psychoanalytical elements into a social theory – that was put on the basis of a new conception of interdisciplinarity. In a single paper it is certainly not possible to reconstruct this new critical model even in its most general features, but it is at least possible to advance some of its main elements and stress their relation both to the new interdisciplinary arrangement and to the new conception of critique.