Hegel and Jekyll 3 Dr. Kaye Responds

Sure enough Dr. Kaye responded promptly.

"Hmm... that sounds interesting! Very "dialectical" indeed! Can you tell me something about the plotline you have in mind? As you know from the story, Mr. Hyde (and I presume "Hegel" is the inversion of Hyde) is the "evil" character, which is interesting because... Hegel might be presumed to be the "professor"/clean cut, good on the outside character of Dr. Jekyll. The inversion is striking, if I understand what you seem to be doing... its showing that the professor is the "Hyde" character, which would immediately undermine some of the characteristic presumptions that folks may have about the "professor" sort of archetype. I am already rolling around in my mind about how the culture may have already shifted tides in the direction your story may take (perhaps?); which is that roles that have traditionally served as responsibility role modeling positions in our society have gradually eroded. It reminds me of this concept from the social philosopher Herbert Marcuse, what he referred to as "repressive desublimation" - which seems to be all around us these days. Repressive Desublimation is the idea that by taking away barriers to our subconscious drives the id can run free and by negating our higher faculties of judgment, and discerning critical thinking, people become more and more aggressive, desire-driven in motivations, and easier to manipulate. The "frontal lobes" shut off. This sounds like an exciting project, and please let me hear more when you are ready."

Yeah

Repressive Desublimation is a large part of the crew aboard Familiarity.

Aggression, desire driven motivation and manipulation take control of the steering wheel. The course veers away from discovery towards excovery...slowly, slowly slowly and then suddenly a new port comes into view. Contempt becomes the propellent.

Perhaps it would be helpful to know more about the "professor' the Hegel in the tale.

I'm gonna ship this whole thing back to Dr. Kaye. Hopefully, he can tell us more about Hegel and his heart rending pursuit of logic and rationality.

In the meantime, let's take a look into Hugh's closet.

Let's start with the shirts.

Hugh has 24 shirts iin his closet. Four of them are sweatshirts. Four of the remainng 20 are long sleeves. They range in size from 2x to 3x. 

Hugh considers himself a rich man.

He has all the shirts that he will need.

He has two pairs of jeans.

He shares this closet with Haylen who has a pair of shoes for every shirt that Hugh has. Her shoes are sensible. The highest heel is two inches.The size is 5 and a half. Once upon a time, she wished her feet were bigger so that she could have a wider selection of shoes.. She's never gonna step into those torturous high heels that she wore and wished for in younger days. 

"How would you like to wear those goddamned things Hugh?"

"How would you like to wear a goddamned tie, Haylen."

Hugh has one black suit hanging in the closet just in case there is a funeral or a wedding or he has to go to court.

Otherwise, the weather suits his clothes. 

Haylen has 60 items on hangers in the same closet.

She is also prepared for a funeral.

Or court

Or both