Aufhebung operates as speculative mourning over spectral past shapes

Evidence

Spirit’s bygone moments, which form its habitus, present themselves by the same token as its ‘exteriorizations’ (Äußerungen). Out of necessity, spirit projects itself into the outside, an alienation which enables the opposite movement by which each of its moments become interiorized, and this ‘interiorization’ is also seen to be an essential process of the speculative pedagogy. Hence, every one of spirit’s shapes will appear retroactively, as an exteriorization which is reinteriorized, making each a kind of imaginary presence, a spectral mode of being their past selves. In this sense, the Aufhebung can be interpreted as the labour of speculative mourning. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1013

Categorization

• QUESTION: The ‘labour of mourning’ reading of Aufhebung deserves comparison with psychoanalytic mourning (Freud) — a promising cross-domain thread.
• XREF: Spectral past shapes connect to reader’s brain-work interest: neural traces re-lit by memory are exteriorizations reinteriorized. — connects to: Speculative abrogation is the Aufhebung’s self-sublation that frees from attachment — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1076; Dialectical sublation operates as speculative mourning over past selves.; Aufhebung is itself transformed across spirit’s development rather than remaining fixed — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1005 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Dialectical sublation operates as speculative mourning over past selves. #corroborates (0.90)
• Speculative abrogation is the Aufhebung’s self-sublation that frees from attachment #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1076
• Aufhebung’s preservation is identified with the Aristotelian concept of hexis #qualifies (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 480
• Aufhebung is itself transformed across spirit’s development rather than remaining fixed #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1005