In 1973 Lacan distinguished an inaccessible real of the unconscious and a real of number, two forms of real. What relates them? In the same year, he also posed a question regarding logical time: What, in a set of dimensions, “simultaneously produces surface and time"? We will address the limits to deciphering the signifiers in dreams and to censorship, and the limits number creates. The boundary between these two reals depends on the contingency of object a in the analytical cure and the end of analysis.

The section “Observation of Nature” in chapter 5 of Phenomenology of Spirit can be considered a fundamental point from which to understand Hegel's surrounding reflections on Self-Consciousness, Reason and Spirit. Following the constant movements of life and the dialectical relation between inorganic and organic in the natural world provides tools for grasping his ideas concerning Individuality, Subjectivity, Objectivity, and the crucial processes of Negation and Recognition.

The section “Observation of Nature” in chapter 5 of Phenomenology of Spirit can be considered a fundamental point from which to understand Hegel's surrounding reflections on Self-Consciousness, Reason and Spirit. Following the constant movements of life and the dialectical relation between inorganic and organic in the natural world provides tools for grasping his ideas concerning Individuality, Subjectivity, Objectivity, and the crucial processes of Negation and Recognition.