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Contradiction

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Is Hegel a Nominalist?

There's a tension in psychoanalysis because you have the clinical side, which is literally one person talking to another person. On that level, it's very individualistic. But then what the critical thinking, the theoretical thought is, is to expand the clinic outward as a social. So there's this really productive tension between the particular and the universal for Hegel. And he gives an example of how our identity is made up of also what's different from us.

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