The "sensory certainty" as a phenomenon of language: a psychoanalytic reading of the Hegelian dialectics

• Grant number: 12/08399-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2012
• End date: July 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Nina Virginia de Araujo Leite
• Grantee: Mariana Marques Moraes
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

V. Safatle and S. Zizek defend a "dialectic reading" of Hegel that comes from a rapprochement between Hegelian dialectics and Lacanian signifier's logic, grounded in the modern approach to the concepts of statement and enunciation. Focusing on the dialectic that is at work in Phenomenology of Spirit, and in particular on "sensory certainty", we propose to explore such hypothesis in the context of an analysis of the stance adopted by philosophers such as M. Robitaille and H-G. Gadamer on Hegel's dialectics and language. (AU)