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[[dialectic]] ([[Fr]].''[[dialectique]]'')

This is the tactic which Plato ascribes to Socrates, who is shown as beginning most dialogues by first reducing his interlocutor to a state of confusion and helplessness.

It is only by means of "an endless dialectical process" that the analyst can subvert the ego's disabling illusions of permanence and stability, in a manner identical to the Socratic Dialogue.<ref>Lacan, 1951b: 12</ref>

Although the origin of dialectics goes back to the Greek philosophers, its dominance in modern philosophy is due to the revival of the concept in the eighteenth century by the post-Kantian idealists Fichte and Hegel, who conceived of the dialectic as a triad of thesis, antithesis and synthesis.

Each confrontation is resolved by an operation called the ''[[Aufhebung]]'' (usually translated as '[[sublation]]') in which a new idea (the [[synthesis]]) is born from the opposition between [[thesis]] and [[antithesis]]; the [[synthesis]] simultaneously annuls, preserves and raises this opposition to a higher level.

The particular way in which the [[Hegelian]] [[dialectic]] is appropriated by [[Lacan]] owes much to [[Alexandre Kojeve]], whose lectures on [[Hegel]] [[Lacan]] attended in Paris in the 1930s.

However, there are also important differences between the [[Lacanian]] [[dialectic]], and the [[Hegelian]] [[dialectic]].

Thus [[Lacan]] contrasts his own version of the ''[[Aufhebung]]'' with that of [[Hegel]], arguing that it repalces [[Hegel]]'s idea of [[progress]] with"the avatars of a lack."<ref>{{Ec}} p.837</ref>

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