Volume-XII, Issue-II, March 2026 |
অভাবের সত্তাতত্ত্ব ও স্বীকৃতির ডায়ালেকটিক: লাকাঁ-র মনোবিশ্লেষণমূলক দর্শনের আলোকে হেগেলের পুনর্পাঠ ড. মো: নাজমুল হাসান, স্বাধীন গবেষক, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ, ভারত |
Received: 12.03.2026 | Accepted: 13.03.2026 | Published Online: 31.03.2026 | Page No: | ||||
DOI: 10.29032/ijhsss.vol.12.issue.02W. | |||||||
Ontology of Lack and the Dialectic of Recognition: A Re-reading of Hegel in the Light of Lacan’s Psychoanalytic Philosophy Dr. Md. Nazmul Hasan, Independent Research Scholar, West Bengal, India | ||
ABSTRACT | ||
This article examines the philosophical relationship between the dialectic of recognition in Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and the ontology of lack in the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan. While Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit presents subjectivity as emerging through the struggle for recognition between self-consciousness, Lacanian psychoanalysis interprets the subject as fundamentally divided and constituted by a structural lack within the symbolic order. The aim of this study is to reconsider Hegel’s theory of recognition through the conceptual framework of Lacanian desire in order to show how subject formation may be understood as a process structured not only by social recognition but also by the dynamics of lack and desire. The article first reconstructs Hegel’s account of self-consciousness, focusing on the struggle for recognition and the master–slave dialectic as the historical and intersubjective foundation of subjectivity. It then analyses Lacan’s central concepts—mirror stage, symbolic order, lack, desire, and the split subject—in order to demonstrate how human subjectivity is constituted through an irreducible lack that can never be fully reconciled. Building on these theoretical perspectives, the paper argues that recognition can be reinterpreted as a form of desire; the subject seeks recognition from the Other precisely because its identity is incomplete. Through this Lacanian re-reading, the article challenges interpretations of Hegel that emphasize reconciliation or the closure of dialectical development. Instead, it proposes that subjectivity remains structured by a constitutive lack that perpetually renews the demand for recognition. Ultimately, this analysis contributes to contemporary debates in continental philosophy and critical theory by showing how Hegelian dialectics and Lacanian psychoanalysis together illuminate the complex formation of the modern subject. | ||
Keywords: Dialectic of Recognition; Ontology of Lack; Desire; Subjectivity; Master–Slave Dialectic; The Other; Critical Theory |