Abstract
The progression of Consciousness in Hegel's Phenomenology is usually understood as either a logical (McTaggart) or temporal (Marx) succession. Beginning in the twentieth century, phenomenological readings (Merleau-Ponty) have sought to reconcile these two competing data. Lacan's ‘Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certainty: A New Sophism’ may be read as a response to Hegel's dialectic in this tradition. It describes in allegorical form the progression of Consciousness through three distinct rational phases that correspond to the most basic phases of Hegel's dialectic. Crucially, this succession depends on strictly irrational elements. Doubt, and its manifestation in the momentary hesitation of the subject, proves instrumental in the emergence of identity and takes on a positive rational value. Lacan's concept of Logical Time synthesizes the equally important imperatives of Logic and Time that alone permit the emergence of a fully adaptive reason, and the higher forms of Consciousness that are predicated upon it.
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