Anima, follia, intersoggettività. Alcune riflessioni sull'Antropologia hegeliana

The article aims at analyzing the first part of the Subjective Spirit, namely the Anthropology, trying to discover the first step of the Spirit in the concept of soul, due to its intrinsic intersubjectivity. The first paragraph describes Hegel’s concept of soul, which is characterized by immediacy and indeterminateness. These characters belong to the human being as a spiritual being. The second paragraph concerns the concept of sensibility, which is connected to the Nature-Spirit gap. Sensibility is the first form of conceptualization of alterity. Through sensibility, soul begins to develop itself as subjectivity. This development is marked by negativity and contradiction. The highest contradiction is discussed in the third paragraph: insanity as an important moment for the spiritual development. In the fourth paragraph the author demonstrates that through insanity soul partially recognizes the immanent and intersubjective relation that constitutes itself.