Subversion of Desire and Dialectic of Subject

The Influence of Hegel in Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory

Abstract

Beyond the theoretical and temporal distances that exist between Hegel and Lacan, we consider that an exhaustive analysis of the sources can give rise to new ways of linking philosophy with other disciplines, in this case psychoanalysis, in order to better understand the importance that philosophy has had in other areas of thought. This article develops part of our research regarding the influence of Hegel on Lacan's psychoanalytic theory, the results of which gave rise to the writing of our TFL, in which we analyzed and reformulated the various ways in which Hegel's philosophy influenced the Lacanian conception of the subject, of desire and of the imaginary and the symbolic. We will return here to what was elaborated in the second chapter of said TFL, focused on the notion of desire and its role in the formation of the subject from its link with the other/Other. Pointing out the differences between their theoretical objectives and the way in which they developed these notions, we address this relationship of influence with the purpose of identifying the points in which, despite Lacan's presumed anti-Hegelianism, Hegel continued to be an inescapable point of reference for him in topics of vital importance for his psychoanalytic purposes.