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Hegel's Self-Consciousness

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The Connection Between Hegel and Psychoanalysis Is That Desire Never Achieves the Object

Hegel says desire never achieves the object, which I don't think makes the object hysterical. You can only find that object that you cannot obtain within another subject. That's what makes desire perpetual is that the object is always fleeing from you. The big because it's attached to this other self consciousness. This is why ordinary objects are for him just, they,. they just can be cast aside because you can easily get them and then just toss them. Except insofar as those ordinary objects are mediated by another self-consciousness and then they cease to be just ordinary objects. Right? And that's what we got to at the end of the, of the consciousness section. And this now

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