Hegel and Freud: A Comparison

Butler, Clark

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“…There are two articles of note that were published in roughly the same era as Ricoeur’s 1970 publication in English. The first is Darrell Christensen’s, ‘Hegel’s Phenomenological Analysis and Freud’s Psychoanalysis’, in the International Philosophical Quarterly (1968) and the second is Clark Butler’s ‘Hegel and Freud: A Comparison’ in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (1976). One can see in Butler’s article an indication of just how undeveloped the line of inquiry into the Hegel/psychoanalysis connection is at that point of the 20th century with a glance at the bibliography.…”

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Hegel, Psychoanalysis and Intersubjectivity

Macdonald

2011

Philosophy Compass

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This article aims to locate the connections between Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory, with a particular focus on the model of intersubjectivity, as drawn from his Phenomenology of Spirit. The roots of the encounter between the philosophy of Hegel and psychoanalytic theory can be traced back to Jacques Lacan and the less well-considered figure of Jean Hyppolite. Lacan, as a psychoanalyst, used Hegel's thought in his own theory, as is well known, while Hyppolite was arguably one of the first to write from a philosophical angle about the links between the two seemingly opposed systems of thinking. I will give a broad overview of the use of Hegelian philosophy in psychoanalytic theory from the Hyppolite-Lacan relationship through to contemporary thinkers in the fields of philosophy and psychoanalysis. Although recently the figure of Slavoj Ž ižek has popularised the Hegel-psychoanalysis connection, there remains much more to be explored in this branch of Hegel studies that widens the scope beyond the Lacanian-Marxist version he employs. This article will survey existing literature (in the English language) and thus illuminate the key texts in the history of Hegel's impact on psychoanalytic theory and the concept of intersubjectivity and gesture towards the future potential of this line of inquiry.

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Hegel, Psychoanalysis and Intersubjectivity

Macdonald

2011

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“…Although this issue has not received as much discussion as it deserves (Butler 1976;Christensen 1968;Mills 2000;Whitebook 1995: 8-9;Wilden 1981), it could be maintained that Hegel's views here are a precursor to those of Sigmund Freud. In the Phenomenology, Hegel maintains in effect that society or social order could not exist at all without duty or ethical self-restraint and therefore a certain amount of unhappiness, of the kind which in his Civilization and its Discontents, Freud associates with self-imposed instinctual renunciation.…”

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Hegel, Identity Politics and the Problem of Slavery

Burns¹

2006

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The Concept of the Self in Psychoanalytic Theory and its Philosophical Foundations

Kirshner

1991

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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Concepts of "the self" in psychoanalytic theory have important philosophic underpinnings which may not be adequately appreciated. Both self psychology and ego psychology, with their contrasting positions on the self as a mental structure, retrace paths taken by Western philosophy beginning at least with Hume and Descartes. They reflect traditional philosophic questions, notably of a homuncular self internal to consciousness and the isolation of the subject from other selves. Psychoanalysis has not utilized Hegel's conception of the intersubjective origins of the self, in which the self emerges only in an encounter with another subject, although this approach is implicit in the work of Winnicott on the mother-infant dyad. This movement from a one- to a two-person psychology also presents conceptual problems, as illustrated by the psychoanalytic theories of Sartre and Lacan, who take up opposing positions on the status of consciousness and on intersubjectivity in the formation of the self. Sartre's phenomenology, with its emphasis on the questing nature of the subject in search of an identity, resonates with contemporary theories of narcissism in which the painful isolation of self from self-affirming and mirroring objects is central to clinical practice. Lacan's insight into the role of acquisition of language helps us to understand the formation of the subject in pursuit of a virtual selfhood, as Sartre described, but embedded within an intersubjective matrix.

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Hegel and Freud: A Comparison

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Hegel, Psychoanalysis and Intersubjectivity

Hegel, Psychoanalysis and Intersubjectivity

Hegel, Identity Politics and the Problem of Slavery

The Concept of the Self in Psychoanalytic Theory and its Philosophical Foundations

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