March 29, 2011 Hegel Freud Talk
April 2012 Hegel Freud Paper
Verneinung: negation
Verdrängung: repression (neurosis)
Verwerfung: foreclosure (psychosis)
Verleugnung: disavowal (perversion)
Verdichtung: condensation
Verschiebung: displacement
Discussion:
There is no interiority of the self: interior richness that went lost by being alienated, by going to other, by suffering in the other, there is no entity to start with, it is only be going into the other
Hegeian logic as a project is profoundly non-Aristotlean.
Žižek’s intervention:
Gerard Lebrun: Kant is too soft towards the crack (its irreducible), but Kant only draws epietemological consequence, Hegel what if this crack that appears to make in-itself inaccessible is a property of the thing itself. Hegel asserts the crack.
Hegel’s fundamental procedure: the coming of reason (the worst teleological Hegel), but really read him the cunning of reason means its opposite. Whenever you propose a project it will go wrong. If there is a Hegelian text on language it is Heinrich Kleist, if you want to move beyond platitudes, you say too much and then trying to get out of the sh** you fall into, read Hegel’s reading of Antigone, and compare it to Judith Butler, in one feature she follows Gerthe, I’m not doing this for anyone only for my brother. No just my brother, screw everyone. Hegel says only after exposing herself to the contingency of doing it, she because aware of what she is doing. It is not only with Hegel with have first level negation and then Freud adds this clinamen and so on, Hegel can’t think the as it were the foundational matrix of negation itself, what I’m tempted to do, by linking this ‘ver’ problem to the topic of repetition, can Hegel think repetition, the foundational operation of Hegel is something which post-Hegelian though focused on compulsion-to-repeat, the death drive and so on. Something begins visible in Hegel the very core of his operation. Hegel’s notion of totality, it is precisely the totality and all its verspragen. Include all its failures and so on. To speak today about Capitalism, is also to speak about Congo. This is not just a dark area outside, to put it in a political forum, to speak about death penalty, ok let’s debate about abolishing penalty but first let’s abolish guys like you. If you don’t want to speak Fascism don’t talk about capitalism. Hegelian totality all the lapses you have to include them.
When Hegel appears to promote this circular movement, this returning to itself, he always says that to what we return, there is no subject who loses itself, externalizes itself, this loss of self is the very genesis of self. The becoming-self is that you tear yourself out of your immediate natural self, this otherness is precisely you yourself as an object, Kafka the only Bolshevik writer, wrote in his diary, there was a dog who was whipped by his master, stole the whip from his master and started to whip himself and thought, “now I am free.”
I am never myself as a thing. Ontological pain. This return is the very constitution … the absolute is temporary. Hegel is not a cheap historicist. He is a more radical historicist, of course there are eternity above, and this eternity above can be changed.