Psychology Today | 24.04.2026 02:25
In the most recent translation of one of philosophy’s greatest texts, Hegel’s The Phenomenology of Spirit, the translators make an interesting claim relating the book more to psychology than to philosophy: “The Phenomenology actually reads more like a series of cultural psychoanalytic sessions in which Hegel does his patients’ 'free association' with them.… there’s probably little that Hegel could have learned later from Freud” (xvii).