Memory
Hegel (Psychology)
The final stage of representation [Vorstellung], appearing in three forms: name-retaining, reproductive, mechanical. In mechanical memory, spirit turns itself into a series of "representation-less signs."
In Hegel
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Warum das keine abrichtung ist
It is the utmost externalization — spirit makes itself into a thing in which there is nothing left to represent. And it is precisely from this point that the path leads to thinking.
Editionsgeschichte
The transcripts of Erdmann and Griesheim give a different arrangement, in which memory occupies the third position after intuition and representation. There is a reason for this: the transition to thinking is supposed to be organic, and mechanism cannot accomplish that.
In den ersten auflagen
Enc. §§ 461–464
Quellen
1817 §§ 381–383, 1827 §§ 460–462
Im buch
GW 25.2 (Stolzenberg); the divergent arrangement in Erdmann (Erd 175 f.) and Griesheim (Gr 336), compared in Stederoth, p. 372 f.
Systematischer ort
Sign, Thinking