Translation Enrique Eskenazi
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Introduced in our literature by Giegerich (1), the tautological assumption is a heuristic that makes the definition of truth Hegel, as the identity of identity and difference, in operational terms a praxis even as reflexively enables the interpreter to "see through" the externality and immediacy sensory representational form myths, fairy tales, dreams and other cultural products so that single situation or mood expressing truth can be known from within.
As implied by the etymology of the word, the interpretation is so concerned to "say" ( legein ) "same" ( tauton ), that is, discern, in very different and even opposite, sameness that qualify as internal moments of each other.
Consider for example a dream in which the figure of the dreamer is stalked by a murderer. A first possible reaction to such a dream could be taken literally modeled on a similar event in real life. This, however, not take us too far. Real life is a world of existing entities in external relations, which is what first makes possible an act as murder. The dream, in contrast, is an interior drama of imaginal figures that mirror each other in a way that is allegorical significance. The murderer of sleep, far from being an external entity, independent and self-identical, is a mental picture is essential for the description of the truth that has the dream. The murderer himself is the self-of-dream or paying tribute to both describe notional substance, we might even say "the real murderer."
The same applies to the figures in a fairy tale or a myth. Bluebeard is not an external one with respect to the frightening maiden (2). Nor is Hades for Persephone. Rather, as those hands in the MC Escher drawing that themselves are drawn, both are mutually constituting figures, whose relations with each other, far from the relations of separate and distinct people in the social world, are like letters have relationships in the formation of a word, or that have the words in the formation of a sentence. No matter how jumbled it may seem that even the interpreter does not distinguish the forest from the trees, only reading them the way of "saying the same "in the tautological assumption we can deepen the implications with regard to consciousness and what they show about the life of the soul. And here we can remember a phrase that expresses succinctly Giegerich tautological assumption in the form of a saying: "But there is another psychology. Or there is another one's own "soul", the other internal, ie herself while other "(3)
The tautological assumption is again to our aid to consider the significance of developments in the plot and scene changes. Here, as before, it is not external relations, ie a situation that happens to another. Then when they are tautologically reflect the sameness that qualify, the imaginative mind what has variously represented as subsequent events and scene changes can be seen as bringing to light the implications inherent in the unique situation that has been operational since the beginning .
Greg Mogenson
Notes
(1) W. Giegerich, The Soul's Logical Life: Towards a Rigorous Notion of Psychology (Frankfurt am Main: Peter LANG, 1998), PP. 119-123. Para un ejemplo exhaustivo del uso interpretativo de la presuposición tautológica, ver el capítulo 6 de este libro.
(2) W. Giegerich, “The Animus as Negation and as the Soul’s Own Other. The Soul’s Threefold Stance toward Its Experience of Its Other ”, en Soul-Violence , Collected English Papers, vol. III, pp. 111-167.
(3) W. Giegerich, DL Miller, G. Mogenson, Dialectics and Analytical Psychology: The El Capitan Canyon Seminar (New Orleans: Spring Journal Books, 2005), p. 26. For examples of interpretive use of the tautological assumption, see Chapters 1 and 2 of this book.
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