Andrea Cavalletti, 'The Immemorial: The Subject and Its Doubles.' (Trans. Max Matukhin)

Document Type

Book Review

Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8075-6048

Abstract

This review provides a critical evaluation of Andrea Cavalletti's The Immemorial: The Subject and Its Doubles (translated by Max Matukhin), characterizing it as a dense but rewarding examination of the inner logics defining the category of the self. The author highlights the text's primary challenge: navigating a dense network of psychoanalytic and philosophical interlocutors. Ultimately, the review focuses on Cavalletti’s most powerful conceptual offering—the exploration of the built-in "doubleness" of consciousness and an "exhausted consciousness" that awakens to itself through effort and suffering

Publication Date

9-1-2026

Journal

Philosophy in Review

Link to Full Text

Share

COinS