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The philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel is certainly one of the richest and most complex philosophical endeavours in the history of Western thought. Hegelian scholars have either tried to make sense of its individual parts through detailed analyses, or to offer a comprehensive interpretation of the system as a whole. Attempts to combine these two approaches have often appealed to some key-concepts, such as historicity, recognition, dialectic, and Aufhebung, or to a combination of these concepts, in or

Repetition is constitutive of human life. Unlike simple recall, repetition is permeated by the past and the present and is oriented toward the future. This book investigates the significance of different forms of repetition in literature, culture, and society through studies of the function and importance of an array of repetitive phenomenon.

This is a unique study, contuining the work of Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger, and using the techniques of phenomenology against the prevailing nihilism of our culture. It expands our understanding of the human potential for spiritual self-realization by interpreting it as the developing of a bodily-felt awareness informing our gestures and movements. The author argues that a psychological focus on our experience of well-being and pathology as embodied beings contributes significantly to a historically relevant critique of ideology. It also provides an essential touchstone in experience for a fru

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1: Introduction -- Historical Consciousness -- Structure of the Book -- Remembering -- Remembering as Reparation -- Dialogue with History -- The Argument -- Summary -- Chapter 2: The Internal World -- Chapter 3: Psychoanalysis and the 'Social Subject' -- Chapter 4: Delusional Enemies -- Chapter 5: Solidarity, Catastrophe and Ambivalence -- Chapter 6: Conflicts of Remembering-The Historikerstreit -- Chapter 7: Remembering and Not-Remembering -- Chapter 8: The Unconscious Division of Germany -- Chapter 9: Reparation -- Chapter 10: Remembering, Memorialization and Reparation -- Chapter 11: Conclusion -- References -- 2: The Internal World -- Worlds -- The Psyche as an Internal World -- The Internal World into the External World -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: Psychoanalysis and the 'Social Subject' -- Introduction -- The Social Subject -- Interpreting in the Social -- References -- 4: Delusional Enemies -- The Historical Realization of the Nazi Dream -- The Dread of Sameness -- The Instability of the Narcissistic Ego -- Twins and Doubles -- Narcissism and Hatred -- Religious and Ethnic Hatred -- Conclusion -- References -- 5: Solidarity, Catastrophe and Ambivalence -- The Dread of (Non-)Existing -- Catastrophe of Existence Versus Concern for the Object -- Psychic Retreats and Social Havens -- Conclusion -- References -- 6: Conflicts of Remembering: The Historikerstreit -- The Struggle to Remember and to Forget -- Andreas Hillgruber and the Historikerstreit -- The Historikerstreit and Vergangenheitsbewältigung -- References -- 7: Remembering and Not-Remembering -- Introduction -- Perceptual and Delusional Realities -- The Ambivalence of Not-Remembering -- Ambiguous Remembering -- Beneath Ambiguity -- Not Knowing While Knowing: Disavowal and Undoing -- References