DESIRE AND FINITUDE: ARRANGING MAGIC WITHIN THE FRAME OF HEGEL’S TRIAD OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10780602

Abstract

This article undertakes the task of rearranging Magic/ Spell craft within the frame of Hegel’s dialectical triad of “self-consciousness”, consequently a new triad will be presented that serves to enclose all human desire. The structure of the article is as follows, first Hegel’s concept of “self-consciousness” is presented in the triadic frame of “Desire – Master/slave Relation – Mutual Recognition”, followed by his concept of “Magic”, presented in the triadic frame of  “Indirect (mediate) magic – Direct (immediate) magic – Reverence magic”. Viewing Hegel’s frame of magic through the frame of self-consciousness, the article then claims to put across a flaw i.e. magic, in regards to its objective characteristics, is limited only to the thesis-antithesis portion of the frame of self-consciousness. Mutual Recognition, the synthesis portion never comes to play a part in Hegel’s frame of magic. At last, the article shall fill magic/ spell craft within the frame of self-consciousness to present a new triadic frame of magic/spell craft: “Fortune – Bewitchment – Love”. The achievement of this rearrangement is, on the one hand, rectification of the flaw by means of Love-magic that participates as Mutual Recognition, on the other hand, the declaration that the new frame shall encompass all of human desire.