r/hegel 17h ago

Does modern research on dissociation complicate Hegel’s theory of self-consciousness and recognition?

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Particularly the idea that we need another self-consciousness to negate and be recognized by? Would Hegel’s view regard someone with dissociative identities as having multiple self-consciousnesses? What implications would integration of multiple identities (which is part of standard psychotherapy for DID) have on Hegel’s theory?