Hegelian Model Research Articles

A Feminine Dialectic of Enlightenment? Horkheimer and Adorno Revisited

One of the reasons for the continued influence exercised by Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment' a work which could scarcely be more clearly marked by the historical context of its creation upon current theoretical debates in the realms of politics, aesthetics, and sociology, is the paradigm shift it marks in the analysis of power. Wedged between the dual threats of American consumerism on the one hand and Nazism on the other, Dialectic ofEnlightenment effects a move away from the analysis of domination as an essentially binary structure and toward the examination of power as a complex system of mediation. Stated plainly: it is no longer a question, in this work, of analyzing the subject's domination of its object, but rather of exploring that discursive system of power in which effects of domination oriented around notions of Subject and Object are possible, and, indeed, inevitable. Both Subject and Object, dominator and dominated, function as bearers of a power which neither actually possesses. To this extent, Dialectic of Enlightenment offers a rigorous historical recontextualization of the master-slave dialectic, pushing the Hegelian model to that extreme point where the very category of enslavement crumbles beneath the coercive weight of universal consent. Motivated by an attempt to understand the emergence of fascism as a popular

Philosophical Links to TA: Hegel and the Concept of the Adult Ego State

The “Hegelian Model” of triadic logic is applied to the PAC triad to explain certain conceptual connections among the three basic ego states. Oftentimes, the Adult is regarded simply as a third alternative to Parent and Child. An argument is developed to support the logical primacy of the Integrated Adult ego state, which is considered to subsume the Parent and Child by integrating them into the full range of Adult behavior. This is in distinction to the more traditional concept of the Adult per se. The Hegelian Model is held to provide theoretical justification for the PAC triad.