Dialectical Self-Subversion
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Irrepressible Truth: On Lacan's 'The Freudian Thing' · Adrian Johnston · p.65
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Theoretical move: Johnston argues that Lacan's relationship to Hegel is one of productive ambivalence rather than outright rejection: Hegel's "cunning of reason" (List der Vernunft) is read by Lacan as proto-psychoanalytic, such that Hegel's own philosophical system undergoes a dialectical self-subversion—the truth of the Freudian unconscious speaks through Hegel's speech about truth, even as Hegel remains deaf to its implications. The unconscious (as speaking Ding) is unavoidable, surfaces in dreams/slips/jokes, and exists exclusively on the surface of symbolic inscription rather than hidden in psychical depths.
Hegel's own theorization of die List der Vernunft amounts to a dialectical self-subversion, to an inadvertent but self-wrought disruption of his own philosophical System