Though he was a prolific writer and an original thinker of vast erudition, Jung lacked a gift for clear exposition, and his ideas are less widely appreciated than they deserve to be. " This means that there is a need to read Hegel through contemporary lenses and context for him to fit in the contemporary era.This is the most lucid and timely introduction to the thought of Carl Gustav Jung available to date. The act of overcoming, as Žižek fondly describes, is " to become more Hegelian than the master himself. Hence, Žižek's unorthodox reading of Hegel. The act of repeating gives us a fresh take on the text of Hegel. The act of return leads us back to examine closely the historical transition wherein we may find the theoretical fault somewhere along the line (leading us to dismiss Hegel as the " absolute idealist " who claimed to have possessed " absolute knowledge "). I shall try to elucidate the idea in the following steps: 1) to give a generally accepted account of Hegel today 2) to introduce Slavoj Žižek 3) to dwell on the topic of return and 4) to answer the question, " Is it still possible to be a Hegelian today? " I claim that Žižek's version of a Return to Hegel is manifested in three steps: return, repeat, and overcome. When there is a false break, then the possibility of return is once again opened. However, this act of departure may simply be an illusion-as in the case of Hegel, whose contemporaries (and rivals) Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Marx have proclaimed their post-Hegelian anti-philosophical break. In the general sense, a return may only be possible when there is a successful act of departure.
What I hope to do in this paper is to provide an explication of Žižek's idea of a Return to Hegel. Slavoj Žižek claims that when a true historical break occurs, there is an impossibility of return.
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