Honneth, Alex. “From desire to recogntion: Hegel’s account of human sociality” in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. Eds. Moyar, Dean and Michael Quante, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2008. 76-90. Print.
A subject can arrive at “consciousness” of its own “self” only if it enters into a relationship of “recognition” with another subject. 76
It is unclear why the disappointment over the independence of the object should lead to an encounter with the other and to recogntion (84).
… this subject strives, through the need-driven consumption of its environment, to acquire the individual certainty that the reality it faces is on the whole a product of its own mental activity. In the course of this striving, however, it is confronted with the fact that, as Hegel put it, the world retains its “independence” since its existence is not dependent on the survival of its individual elements.