The Concept of De-Sublation
and the Regressive Process in History:
Prolegomena
The Concept of De-Sublation
and the Regressive Process in History:
Prolegomena
Author(s): Andrzej LederSubject(s): Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Hegel; Freud; Lacan; history; progress; regressive process; sublation; de-sublation
Summary/Abstract: I start the analysis with probably the strongest historiography of progress—the Hegelian philosophy. Then I discuss the dynamics of the “conceptual engine” of the theory of pro-gress in Hegel—the concept of sublation. This analysis will make apparent that the Hegelian approach gives us not only a general “historiosophy” of progress, but above all a precise conceptual—even logical— tool, engine, device; thus pro-ductively mediatizing contradictions and conditioning the possibility of progress as such. In search of the general “historiography” of regress, I then turn towards psychoanaly-tical theory. In the psychoanalytical horizon of Freud and Lacan, I introduce a conceptual instrument forged on the basis of the Hegelian sublation—the concept of de-sublation. It will appear as the sought after “conceptual device” of the general theory of regress. We will see how the de-sublation of the previously sublated whole produces two independent conceptual entities, gathered around the moments of the universal and the singular.
Journal: Praktyka teoretyczna
- Issue Year: 2021
- Issue No: 43
- Page Range: 155-175
- Page Count: 21
- Language: English