Is Hegel the Basic Contradiction of Subjectivity?

Ryan: Do you think that the idea that the big other does not exist, do you think that's a flight from contradiction? Hegel thinks that's constitutive. It's necessary. That initial alienation is the thing that makes you who you are. So if you're going to not get that, then you don't get the other thing either. John Sutter says watch Invasion of the Body Statchers because it really shows the dangers of overcoming alienation.