Alienation presupposes an earlier unalienated human relationship to distort

Evidence

Dialectically sublating the ‘time form’, spirit cancels all tendency to question whether a wholly different origin might have been possible, whether there could have been a wholly different destination from the one that actually came to pass. At the stage of Absolute Knowledge, the time which is sublated – that empty time posted outside itself by consciousness, giving the unfolding of spirit the appearance of a ‘free contingent event’ – leaves us always time to think what might otherwise have been. In this fact, Hegel believes, there remains the possibility of alienation which, in principle, depends on the feeling of lost necessity. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1116 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The concept of alienation functions as criticism without requiring a Utopian counterpart — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 343; Hegelian, Marxist, and existentialist thought diverge on whether alienation is eliminable — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 479; Alienation deepens precisely when people happily identify with imposed existence (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• The possibility of alienation depends on the feeling of lost necessity. #corroborates (0.88) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1116
• Alienation deepens precisely when people happily identify with imposed existence #qualifies (0.78)
• Hostile society alienates the colonized subject from his own body #exemplifies (0.77)
• Radical socialization through exchange produces absolute solitude and alienation #expands (0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 67