HEGEL'S DIALECTIC AS THE FOUNDATION FOR THE GENESIS OF THE SUBJECT: RECOGNITION AND DESIRE WITHIN A KOJÈVIAN AND LACANIAN FRAMEWORK

Abstract

This study investigates the status of dialectics as the foundation of the genesis of the subject within the tradition that articulates Hegel, Kojève, and Lacan. The objective was to analyze how recognition and desire shape the constitution of the subject, rejecting readings that reduce the subject to an a priori given. To this end, an analytical-comparative literature review was conducted. The analysis demonstrated that, in Hegel, the subject is constituted as the result of the immanent movement of consciousness, whose truth emerges from the struggle for recognition and the experience of negativity, with formative work (Bildung) as its foundational moment. Kojève's reading shifts this axis by anthropologizing dialectics and positioning desire as the driving force of history. Finally, the Lacanian subversion radicalizes Hegelian negativity, interpreting desire as constitutive lack and alienation in the Other. It was concluded that dialectics is the principle of intelligibility of subjective genesis, and that the Lacanian twist precludes final synthesis, revealing the constitutive split of the subject.