Dialectical sublation operates as speculative mourning over past selves.

Evidence

Between past and present there is an absolute heterogeneity; and if I can not enter the past, it is because the past is. The only way by which I could be it is for me myself to become in-itself in order to lose myself in it in the form of identification; this by definition is denied me. In fact that shame which I experienced yesterday and which was shame for itself is always shame in the present, and its essence can still be described as for-itself. But its being is no longer for itself since it no longer exists as reflection-reflecting. Though capable of description as for-itself, it simply is. The past is given as a for-itself become in-itself. That shame, so long as I live it, is not what it is. Now that I was it, I can say: it was shame. It has become what it was—behind me. It has the permanence and the constancy of the in-itself; it is at its date for eternity; it has the total adherence of the in-itself to itself. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 434 (#expands, via linked claim)

It is not the adolescent who was at the Polytechnic. Concerning the latter, for so long as he was, we have to say: he is. It is the forty-year old who was the student. Actually the thirty-year old was the student also. But again what would this man of thirty years be without the man of forty who was he? It is at the extreme limit of his present that this man of forty “was” a student at the Polytechnic. Finally it is the very being of the Erlebnis which has the task of being a man of forty, a man of thirty, and an adolescent—all in the mode of having been. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 418 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The unconscious is a mourning-structure born of lost territory. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 455; Past moments of spirit form a habitus that dialectic reactualizes.; Public mourning is active psychological work rather than passive sadness — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 298 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Past moments of spirit form a habitus that dialectic reactualizes. #expands (0.85)
• The past is a for-itself that has hardened into an in-itself #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 434
• A person’s varied past selves all exist in the mode of having been #expands (0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 418
• Public mourning is active psychological work rather than passive sadness #expands (0.78) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 298
• Dialectical criticism occupies a non-position between immersion and externality #expands (0.78) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 53
• Allegory loses its melancholy character when viewed from a redemptive standpoint #qualifies (0.78) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 637
• Deferred mourning is stored up and complicates later griefs #expands (0.75) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 307
• Memory poetically completes the past self with a plenitude of being #complicates (0.75)
• Negation inhabits everyday felt realities like absence and regret #expands (0.72)
• Grief and desire can coexist in profound moments of reflection. #expands (0.72) — Lynch, Thomas, The undertaking-life studies from the…, 441
• Representation is born from the dialectical suppression of immediate sensuous imagery #expands (0.72) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 659